Coercion and Its Fallout

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sidman, Murray

Science Fiction

Authors Cooperative

A New Learning Environment describes a different kind of social environment in a training school. It reports an experiment in 'contingency management' under which students were given positive reasons for behaving well with respect to each other and for studying and learning. It was not easy to construct such an environment. Indeed the practical problems were often staggering. But solutions were found, in part with the help of the art which springs from a humane concern for people and in part through the application of a technology derived from a science of behavior. The result- the CASE project at the National Training School for Boys - may well take its place as a landmark in penal reform.

A New Learning Environment: A Case for Learning

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cohen, Harold L.

Filipczak, James

Psychology & Counseling

Schoenfeld wonders why scientific Psychology has for so long ignored religious behavior when billions of people through the ages have come to practice some form of religion. To stimulate discussion, he abstracts features that are common to all religions, describes the behavior we must observe in order to identify those features, and explores principles that underlie the genesis and continuance of that behavior. From what behavioral properties are key religious concepts drawn? What makes a given religious dogma believable by an ordinary man? What makes the utterances of one man, say a religion's founder, attractive to a potential convert? What makes one religion viable in the behavioral repertory of people, and therefore 'successful,' while another religion is not? There is no definitive reason why, when religious behavior is studied as natural phenomena, the results of a scientific analysis should not illuminate, and even strengthen, the conclusions of religion about behavior.

Religion and Human Behavior

Schoenfeld, William N.

Religion & Spirituality

A Research Story by Murray Sidman. How does the work of Sidman and his coworkers on equivalence relations fit into science and into life? Why were the experiments really done (the Journals never let you tell the whole story)? How did the researchers feel about what they were doing? Much new material, along with reprints, shows the ups and downs, moments of joy along with frustrations, intellectual triumphs and puzzles, intricacies of the reasoning process--and, of course, data. Clearly, Sidman is uncomfortable without data; he has spent his life gathering new data, thinking about it, and working out the next steps. Here is his story.

Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story

Murray Sidman

Coercion and Its Fallout, Study Guide by James Kopp.  Over the years, I have been writing my own questions for more and more of the material I use in my classes. . . .  The students I have sent on to study under other behavior analysts have always been said to 'know their stuff.' But my strongest reinforcement comes from knowing that I have minimized coercion and maximized reinforcement for the construction of correctly formed bits of verbal behavior analysis among considerable numbers of the future shapers in our community. . . .  It helps when a book come along that is well-written and attractive both for its scientific merit and its humanity. It is even better when that book is designed to be used to give reasoned perspective to a side of behavior analysis that is not always taken up as much as it should be. Such a book is Coercion and Its Fallout.

Coercion and Its Fallout, Study Guide

James Kopp

Reference

Do you use Coercion? No? When you have finished this book, you are going to be very surprised; you are going to know some things about yourself that you never knew before. We use coercion almost exclusively to control each other; many find it hard to imagine any other way. The author asks, Does the death penalty deter potential murderers? Is harsh retaliation the answer to the discipline problem in our schools? Do the standard coercive practices work? - in law enforcement, behavior therapy, education, the family, business, the armed forces, diplomacy. Behavior analysis has shown that they do not work. Coercion is in the long run self-defeating. Punishment eventually proves counterproductive. Sidman presents a rational discussion of matters in which emotions usually run strong. He proposes that what we have learned in the laboratory can provide guides both for personal conduct and public policy

Coercion and Its Fallout (Revised Edition)

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