Robert Charles Bolles (April 24, 1928 – April 8, 1994) was an American

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and author who conducted work on

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. He developed the species-specific defense reaction theory which contends that many avoidance behaviors are actually elicited behaviors rather than operant behaviors. He graduated from

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and earned a PhD in

from

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