ArticleBehavior analysis in practice2014
Skeptic's Corner: Punishment - Destructive Force or Valuable Social "Adhesive"?
Article in Behavior analysis in practice, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effects of Negative Punishment on Culturants in a Situation of Concurrence between Operant Contingencies and Metacontingencies.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- The Unique Challenge of Articulating the Behavior Analysts' Ethical Obligations and the Case of Punishment.Behavior analysis in practice · 2019Article
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Abstract
Skepticism that normally focuses on pseudoscientific claims can also be directed at "established" principles of behavior. After discussing some ways in which empirically-derived principles can potentially mislead, as an illustrative example I describe some reasons to wonder whether our understanding of punishment is as established as sometimes assumed.
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