The neurotic paradox and self-punitive behavior in humans |
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Authors: | Philip Truckenbrod Randall B Martin |
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Affiliation: | Elgin Mental Health Center USA;Northern Illinois University USA |
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Abstract: | Human subjects learned a key-pressing response in order to avoid or escape shock. The reinforcement contingencies were then changed to punishment or to regular nonpunished extinction. The locus of shock onset and offset was systematically varied during the punishment phase. More subjects reported awarencess of the change in the nonpunished extinction group. By inference, the punished groups responded more, and thus the results appear analogous to animal studies on vicious circle, self-punitive responding. Discriminability of change from acquisition to extinction appeared to affect detection of the change. |
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Keywords: | Request for reprints should be sent to either author. Philip Truckenbrod, Elgin Mental Health Center, 750 S. State, Elgin, IL 60120 Randall B. Martin, Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. |
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