Appetitive and Aversive Reinforcement Schedule Effects on Team Performance.

Abstract

Three volunteers lived for six successive days in a laboratory programmed for continuous residence. When work on a multiple task performance battery had the effect of preventing a reduction in accumulated team earnings, all subjects complained, one subject stopped working, and another subject's productivity declined. When identical work had the effect of incrementing team earnings, by-products of aversive control were absent. (Author)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 08, 1981
Accession Number
ADA103930

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  • Henry H. Emurian
  • Joseph V. Brady

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  • Johns Hopkins University

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