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In the study of human development a great deal of effort has gone into the study of the measuring of behavior and its change over time. Even those studies sensitive to the need to look at the complexity of behavior and its interaction with other behaviors have failed, in general, to study the context in which the behavior occurs. Thus, while some progress has been made in increasing the level of complexity of the analysis of the behavioral flow through the use of interactional analyses (see, for example, Lewis and Rosenblum, 1974) little attention and still less systematic effort has been directed toward the study of the context in which the behavioral flow is emitted.
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Lewis, M. (1978). Situational Analysis and the Study of Behavioral Development. In: Pervin, L.A., Lewis, M. (eds) Perspectives in Interactional Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3997-7_3
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