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Title

Behavioral variability and rule generation: general restricted, and superstitious contingency statements

Authors

Stuart Vyse, Connecticut CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 1991

Comments

Initially published in Psychological Record, Fall 91, p487-506.

© 1991 by Southern Illinois University

Reprinted with permission: http://thepsychologicalrecord.siu.edu/

Abstract

Examines the contingency statements produced by uninstructed human subjects exposed to a task that assessed nonverbal response variability. Relationship of self-instructions to nonverbal behavior; Environmental conditions associated with accurate and inaccurate rule-generation; Causal status of self-rules.

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Recommended Citation

Vyse, S. A. (1991). Behavioral variability and rule generation: General, restricted, and superstitious contingency. Psychological Record, 41(4), 487.