Cumulative Record. Chapter 21: Some Relations Between Behavior Modification and Basic Research. Quote 13

The theory which accompanies an experimental analysis is particularly helpful in justifying practice because behavior modification often means a vast change in the way in which we deal with people . . . as the states of mind, feelings, and other attributes of the inner man who figures in traditional explanations of human behavior are rejected in favor of antecedent circumstances in a person’s genetic and individual histories. (p. 326)