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A Metacontingency Experiment: The Effects of Contingent Consequences on Patterns of Interlocking Contingencies of Reinforcement
Behavior and Social Issues
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A Metacontingency Experiment: The Effects of Contingent Consequences on Patterns of Interlocking Contingencies of Reinforcement
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| Creator |
Vichi, Christian
Andery, Maria Amalia Pie Abib Glenn, Sigrid S |
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Cultural analysis; Behavior analysis
interlocking behavioral contingencies, metacontingencies, cultural selection, experimental microcultures |
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| Description |
College students were assigned to 2 groups of 4 participants each in a reversal design. On each trial participants chose individually how many tokens to bet, and then collectively chose a row on an 8x8 matrix with a plus or minus sign in each cell. After that the experimenter announced a column that determined whether the group won or lost the bets. Before the trial ended, participants had to distribute their earnings. In experimental condition A the group won in trials after distributing proceeds equally on the previous trial, and in condition B they won only after unequal distribution in the previous trial. Results show that the external contingency on distribution (or, as we suggest, metacontingency) selected the groups’ distribution of their earnings.
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University of Illinois at Chicago Library
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CNPq and CAPES (Brazil)
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| Date |
2009-10-16
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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| Identifier |
https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/2292
10.5210/bsi.v18i1.2292 |
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| Source |
Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 18 (2009); 41-57
1064-9506 |
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| Language |
eng
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https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/2292/2443
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