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J Appl Behav Anal. 1978 Summer; 11(2): 203–214.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.1978.11-203.
PMCID: PMC1311293
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Social validity: the case for subjective measurement or how applied behavior analysis is finding its heart1
Montrose M. Wolf
University of Kansas
1This manuscript was presented as an invited address to the Division of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1976. Many valuable suggestions regarding this manuscript were made by Don Baer, Curt Braukmann, Steve Fawcett, Dean Fixsen, Bill Hopkins, Frances Horowitz, Kathi Kirigin, Jack Michael, Keith Miller, Todd Risley, Jim Sherman, and Sandra Wolf. Preparation of the manuscript was partially supported by Grants MH20030, MH13644, and MH13881 from the National Institute of Mental Health (Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency) to the Department of Human Development and the Bureau of Child Research, University of Kansas. Reprints may be obtained from Montrose M. Wolf, Department of Human Development, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045.
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Selected References
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  • Fawcett Stephen B, Miller L Keith. Training public-speaking behavior: an experimental analysis and social validation. J Appl Behav Anal. 1975 Summer;8(2):125–135. [PubMed]
  • Foxx RM, Azrin NH. Restitution: a method of eliminating aggressive-disruptive behavior of retarded and brain damaged patients. Behav Res Ther. 1972 Feb;10(1):15–27. [PubMed]
  • Jones RJ, Azrin NH. Behavioral engineering: stuttering as a function of stimulus duration during speech synchronization. J Appl Behav Anal. 1969 Winter;2(4):223–229. [PubMed]
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  • Maloney Karen Blase, Hopkins BL. The modification of sentence structure and its relationship to subjective judgements of creativity in writing. J Appl Behav Anal. 1973 Fall;6(3):425–433. [PubMed]
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  • Minkin Neil, Braukmann Curtis J, Minkin Bonnie L, Timbers Gary D, Timbers Barbara J, Fixsen Dean L, Phillips Elery L, Wolf Montrose M. The social validation and training of conversational skills. J Appl Behav Anal. 1976 Summer;9(2):127–139. [PubMed]
  • O'leary K Daniel, Kent Ronald N, Kanowitz Jay. Shaping data collection congruent with experimental hypotheses. J Appl Behav Anal. 1975 Spring;8(1):43–51. [PubMed]
  • Porterfield JK, Herbert-Jackson E, Risley TR. Contingent observation: an effective and acceptable procedure for reducing disruptive behavior of young children in a group setting. J Appl Behav Anal. 1976 Spring;9(1):55–64. [PubMed]
  • Willner Alan G, Braukmann Curtis J, Kirigin Kathryn A, Fixsen Dean L, Phillips Elery L, Wolf Montrose M. The training and validation of youth-preferred social behaviors of child-care personnel. J Appl Behav Anal. 1977 Summer;10(2):219–230. [PubMed]
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