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Tenoke comments on Notes on Psychopathy - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: gwern 19 December 2012 04:02AM

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Comment author: Tenoke 19 December 2012 03:15:02PM 3 points [-]

It is indeed a standard finding of behaviorism and conditioning that punishment is significantly less effective than reinforcement when trying to produce change in the behavior of an animal or a person.