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Electronic innovation in the behavioral sciences: a call to responsibility.

Ralph K. Schwitzgebel
- 01 May 1967 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 5, pp 364-370
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This article is published in American Psychologist.The article was published on 1967-05-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Behavioural sciences.

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Can electronic monitoring reduce crime for moderate to high-risk offenders?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the history of EM and the extent to which EM empirically affects criminal behavior in moderate to high-risk populations, and concluded that applications of EM as a tool for reducing crime are not supported by existing data.
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Electronic House Arrest: An Examination of Citizen Attitudes

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings of a survey of attitudes toward the use of electronic house arrest in Oneida County, New York, with a return rate of 56%.
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Dr Schwitzgebel's machine revisited: Electronic monitoring of offenders

TL;DR: In this article, Goss, an employee of one of the companies, left to pursue the idea through his own company NIMCOS, and the prototype of such an experimental telemetry system had been developed some two years before by psychologist Ralph K Schwitzgebel of the Science Committee on Psychological Experimentation at Harvard University.
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Selected philosophical and methodological papers

Paul E. Meehl
TL;DR: In this article, C.Anderson and K.Gunderson present a thought-experiment on Professor Feigl's mind-body identity thesis on a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables, Kenneth MacCorquodale and Meehl psychopathology and some methodological reflections on the difficulties of psychoanalytic research subjectivity.
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Application of personal telemonitoring to current problems in corrections

TL;DR: Three major correctional objectives may be achieved through the use of telemonitoring systems: reduced correctional costs, extended protection of the public, and improved rehabilitation of offenders.
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Diffusion of Innovations

TL;DR: A history of diffusion research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a glossary of developments in the field of Diffusion research and discuss the consequences of these developments.
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Diffusion of Innovations

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Roles of Communicating Agents in Technological Change in Agriculture

TL;DR: This article found that both in perception of the job and in social evaluation the clerks' role definition is heavily weighted around the middle or "mixed" position on the scale from procedure to service.
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A program of research in behavioral electronics

TL;DR: This paper outlines some uses which the psychologist, the therapist, the social worker, and others concerned with human behavior might make of electronic devices.