Punishment
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Costly punishment does not always increase cooperation.

26 Sep 2009 In a pairwise interaction, an individual who uses costly punishment must pay a cost in order that the opponent incurs a cost. It has been argued that individuals will behave more cooperatively if they know that their opponent has the option of using ... Read more...

Reconciling the role of serotonin in behavioral inhibition and aversion: acute tryptophan depletion abolishes punishment-induced inhibition in humans.

21 Sep 2009 The neuromodulator serotonin has been implicated in a large number of affective and executive functions, but its precise contribution to motivation remains unclear. One influential hypothesis has implicated serotonin in aversive processing; another ... Read more...

Positive interactions promote public cooperation.

2 Sep 2009 The public goods game is the classic laboratory paradigm for studying collective action problems. Each participant chooses how much to contribute to a common pool that returns benefits to all participants equally. The ideal outcome occurs if ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Punishment'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Balancing "no blame" with accountability in patient safety. 29 Sep 2009
• Costly punishment does not always increase cooperation. 26 Sep 2009
• Reconciling the role of serotonin in behavioral inhibition and aversion: acute tryptophan depletion abolishes punishment-induced inhibition in humans. 21 Sep 2009
• Positive interactions promote public cooperation. 2 Sep 2009
• Origins. On the origin of cooperation. 2 Sep 2009
• The dynamics of deterrence. 16 Aug 2009
• When should psychiatrists seek criminal prosecution of assaultive psychiatric inpatients? 30 Jul 2009
• Parenting attitudes and infant spanking: the influence of childhood experiences. 18 Jul 2009
• Effects of vicarious punishment: a meta-analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• [Health care law] 26 Jun 2009
• Aggression, science, and law: The origins framework. Introduction. 19 Jun 2009
• Ease of counterfactual thought generation moderates the relationship between need for cognition and punitive responses to crime. 7 Jun 2009
• Mysteries of morality. 5 Jun 2009
• Effects of reward and punishment on task performance, mood and autonomic nervous function, and the interaction with personality. 30 May 2009
• Behavioral inhibition and activation systems: differences in substance use expectancy organization and activation in memory. 30 May 2009
• Punishment for refusing OPV. 30 May 2009
• On hotheads and Dirty Harries: the primacy of anger in altruistic punishment. 30 May 2009
• Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection, and punishment. 30 May 2009
• Authoritarian personality and rape sentence length in conservative and liberal states. 30 May 2009
• Decision-making patterns and sensitivity to reward and punishment in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Punishment'

Definition: The application of an unpleasant stimulus or penalty for the purpose of eliminating or correcting undesirable behavior.

Descriptor UI: D011678

Alternative terms: Punishment; Punishments;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; psychology;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.770.571; I01.880.630.716;

Technical Notes: human & animal