The negative reinforcing functions of nonconformity

Seybert, Jeffrey A.; Weiss, Robert Frank

doi:10.3758/bf03198157

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“…Intermittent shock effects appear to have no functionally equivalent parallel in reward conditioning (e.g., Franchina, 19,66, 1969a) and exhibit a pattern of results that also distinguishes between aversive (escape) and appetitive (reward) conditioning. Moreover, this variable, which identifies and pinpoints the locus of the aversive drive, has been successfully extended to studies of the motivational properties of such diverse forms of human behavior as nonconformity, altruism, and interpersonal communication (e.g., Seybert & Weiss, 1974;Weiss, Boyer, Lombardo, & Stich, 1973;Weiss, Miller, Steigleder, & Denton, 1977;Weiss, Williams, & Miller 1972).…”

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Drivelike motivational properties of competitive behavior.

Steigleder

1980

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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A series of three experiments on competitive behavior that demonstrated an empirical correspondence between drive effects and the drivelike motivation aroused by competition contributes to an accumulating body of literature that attributes aversively motivating properties to competitive behavior. Two experiments centered on an instrumental escape conditioning model from which predictions were derived and tested. Competitive analogs of drive intensity and intermittent shock effects served to pinpoint the source of drive to the competition between opponents. The drivelike properties aroused by competition were further examined in the context of the standard learning paradigm of a test for the energizing effect of an irrelevant drive on behavior. The third experiment produced a pattern of results that strongly suggested, as is characteristic of known drives, that the drive aroused by competition exerted a general energizing effect on behavior.

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confidence: 99%