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The Participatory Role of Verbal Behavior in an Elaborated Account of Metacontingency: From Conceptualization to Investigation

Behavior and Social Issues

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Title The Participatory Role of Verbal Behavior in an Elaborated Account of Metacontingency: From Conceptualization to Investigation
 
Creator Smith, Gregory Scott
Houmanfar, Ramona
Louis, Sushil J.
 
Subject behavior analysis; cultural analysis
metacontingency, sociology, cultural analysis, cultural selection, organizational behavior management, group practices
 
Description The concept of metacontingency has been developed in order to advance an analysis of group practices and, presumably, a science of cultural change and intervention. To date discussion surrounding the metacontingency has been largely theoretical in nature. The present study arranged conditions analog to an organizational setting, in which two participants engaged in interlocking behaviors on networked computers to generate products for their hypothetical organization. Varying instructions were presented to participants throughout the experiment to determine their effect on participants’ coordinated problem solving behavior. Data were collected on participants’ task performance and their vocal verbal interactions as they solved problems together. The experimental conditions and data are analyzed and discussed within the framework of the metacontingency concept and thus far, the empirical data support the conceptualization of metacontingency.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Contributor Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense
 
Date 2012-02-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/3662
10.5210/bsi.v20i0.3662
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 20 (2011); 122-146
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/3662/3140