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=== Frank Beach === In a conference in 1960, chaired by [[Frank Beach]], a pioneer in [[comparative psychology]], and attended by luminaries in the field, the term ''instinct'' was restricted in its application.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} During the 1960s and 1970s, textbooks still contained some discussion of instincts in reference to human behaviour. By the year 2000, a survey of the 12 best selling textbooks in introductory psychology revealed only one reference to instincts, and that was in regard to [[Sigmund Freud]]'s referral to the "[[Id, ego, and super-ego#Id|id]]" instincts.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} In this sense, the term ''instinct'' appeared to have become outmoded for introductory textbooks on human psychology. The book ''Instinct: An Enduring Problem in Psychology'' (1961)<ref>Birney, R. C., Teevan, R. C. (1961). ''Instinct: An Enduring Problem in Psychology'', Van Nostrand, Princeton, New Jersey.{{page needed|date=March 2019}}</ref> selected a range of writings about the topic.
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