For anyone interested, interesting review of Sidman by Dennis Deprato:
Dennis J. Delprato "Beyond Murray Sidman's 'Coercion and Its Fallout.'".
Psychological Record, The.
FindArticles.com. 07 Jan. 2009.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3538/is_n3_v45/ai_n28657020
In Coercion and Its Fallout, Sidman (1989) proposes that coercion is at the
root of many harmful and ineffective interpersonal and social practices. After
critically examining coercion, he offers an alternative in the form of positive
reinforcement based on naturally occurring deprivations. This paper proposes
that Sidman's thesis can be extended by the incorporation of Goldiamond's
constructional approach and Powers's perceptual control theory. It argues that
the latter provides a coherent framework for understanding the effects of
coercion and how there might even be negative side effects of the use of
positive reinforcement.
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Steven Hall
Butte Community College, Oroville, CA
mrstev...@aol.com
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