As Helene had been born with a progressive muscular dystrophy, Kantor accepted a position as a professor at Indiana University where he would remain for 39 years.
He was appointed to the position of research associate at the University of Chicago in 1964, and worked there until the time of his death twenty years later.
Kantor saw a similar goal in the recently developed school of behaviorism, although he saw it as reductionistic and simplistic, and not completely separated from mentalism.
For Kantor, because the interaction between organism and environment is continuous in time this event should be analyzed in terms of all of its interdependent components.
Kantor represented this field with the formula PE = C(k, sf, rf, hi, st, md) where PE is the psychological event, consisting of the interdependence (C) of the factors in the field, k stands for the specificity of every behavior segment, sf is the stimulus function, rf is the response function, hi stands for the history of interactions, st corresponds to the interactional setting, and md is the medium of contact.
Among the major topics that he addressed in an interbehavioral manner can be found social psychology, psycholinguistics (a term he created and used for the first time in 1936, in his book An Objective Psychology of Grammar, and was used much more frequently by his pupil Nicholas Henry Pronko[1] where it was used for the first time to talk about an interdisciplinary science "that could be coherent".