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Q:

All right, well, just to finish up with the Center for Advanced Study, I notice that the title is Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Would you say that was accurate for -- hold on -- Okay. Just to educate an uneducated person about that period of time, what did that title really mean -- the behavioral sciences? Was it --you've been using the term social sciences. Did it mean essentially the same thing? Was the research that was going on quantitative or --

Stanton:

I'd have to go back and look at some of my -- some of the notes, or some of the things that were written at the time about it. I didn't participate in the title or the selection of the title. I believe that that was in the document that Barney Berelson prepared. Behavioral science was a fashionable label at that time. From my point of view, it's still a good one. But I can't help you much more on that.

Q:

Okay. Did Paul Lazarsfeld have any kind of involvement at all after the board was set up? Did he have any involvement with the --

Stanton:

Oh, he spent a year out there.

Q:

Oh, he did?

Stanton:

Yes.

Q:

Okay. I didn't realize that. Was that the first year?





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