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Is this defense needed?

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James A. Dinsmoor
James A. Dinsmoor
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Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. 47405
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1982 , pp. 679
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