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Contingency-shaped behavior is behavior directly controlled by the relations between responses and their consequences. But behavior may also come under the control of antecedent stimuli, stimuli in the presence of which responses produce their consequences. We find important examples of such stimuli in human verbal communities, which arrange contingencies that bring behavior under the control of antecedent verbal stimuli called commands, instructions, or rules.
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Catania, A.C., Shimoff, E., Matthews, B.A. (1989). An Experimental Analysis of Rule-Governed Behavior. In: Hayes, S.C. (eds) Rule-Governed Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0447-1_4
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