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Countercontrol in behavior analysis.
Article in The Behavior analyst, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Countercontrol and Associated Challenges in Residential Treatment.Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Article
- Research Ethics for Behavior Analysts in Practice.Behavior analysis in practice · 2023Review
- Social Justice is the Spirit and Aim of an Applied Science of Human Behavior: Moving from Colonial to Participatory Research Practices.Behavior analysis in practice · 2022Review
- Variables involved in the acquisition and maintenance of racial aggression and its victims' reactions.Behavior analysis in practice · 2022Review
- Countercontrol: A Relational Frame Theory (RFT) Account and Revival of a 70-Year-Old Skinnerian Term.Perspectives on behavior science · 2022Article
- Improving Juvenile Justice Settings by Decreasing Coercion: One Lab's Perspectives from Behind the Fence.Perspectives on behavior science · 2022Article
- Punishment and its putative fallout: A reappraisal.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2021Article
- Noncompete Clauses in Applied Behavior Analysis: A Prevalence and Practice Impact Survey.Behavior analysis in practice · 2020Article
- On Power and Freedom: Extending the Definition of Coercion.Perspectives on behavior science · 2020Article
- Best Practices in Utilizing the Changing Criterion Design.Behavior analysis in practice · 2017Article
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Abstract
Countercontrol is a functional class of behavior that is part of Skinner's analysis of social behavior. Countercontrol refers to behavioral episodes comprised of socially mediated aversive controlling conditions and escape or avoidance responses that do not reinforce, and perhaps even punish, controllers' responses. This paper suggests that neglect of countercontrol in modern behavior analysis is unfortunate because the concept applies to interpersonal and social relations the fundamental operant principle that human behavior is both controlled and controlling-humans are not passive and inflexible. Countercontrol is addressed here in terms of conceptual status, contemporary developments in behavior analysis, its importance in a behavior-analytic approach to freedom and cultural design, applications, and research. The main conclusion is that Skinner's formulation of counter-control is scientifically supported and worthy of increased prominence in behavior analysis.
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