ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2021
Punishment and its putative fallout: A reappraisal.
Article in Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Associations Between Steep Delay Discounting and Punishment Learning.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Cognitive flexibility of male rats is increased by augmented punishment in a reversal learning task but ketamine has no detectable long-term effects.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Differential discounting of past and future gains and losses in individuals in recovery from substance use disorder.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- A Discussion of Positive Behavior Support and Applied Behavior Analysis in the Context of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the UK and Ireland.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Review
- Contingent Electric Skin Shock: An Empirical or Ideological Issue?Perspectives on behavior science · 2023Article
- Effects of repeated exposure to escalating versus constant punishment intensity on response allocation.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2022Article
- Increased responsiveness to punishment of cocaine self-administration after experience with high punishment.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In his book Coercion and Its Fallout Murray Sidman argued against the use of punishment based on concerns about its shortcomings and side effects. Among his concerns were the temporary nature of response suppression produced by punishment, the dangers of conditioned punishment, increases in escape and avoidance responses, punishment-induced aggression, and the development of countercontrol. This paper revisits Sidman's arguments about these putative shortcomings and side effects by examining the available data. Although Sidman's concerns are reasonable and should be considered when using any form of behavioral control, there appears to be a lack of strong empirical support for the notion that these potential problems with punishment are necessarily ubiquitous, long-lasting, or specific to punishment. We describe the need for additional research on punishment in general, and especially on its putative shortcomings and side effects. We also suggest the need for more effective formal theories of punishment that provide a principled account of how, why, and when lasting effects of punishment and its potential side effects might be expected to occur or not. In addition to being necessary for a complete account of behavior, such data and theories might contribute to improved interventions for problems of human concern.
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