Psychopathy and verbal conditioning.
- 1 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Vol. 72 (1) , 71-73
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0024220
Abstract
The experiment was designed to study the effects of reinforcer status upon the conditioning of psychopaths (N = 46) and normal (N = 54) incarcerated naval personnel. Social reinforcements were given by 2 graduate students and 2 exconvicts, the conditioning procedure being that outlined by Taffel (1955). While there were neither significant E [experimenter] nor role-playing effects, results did indicate that psychopaths were influenced by positive social approval, thus contradicting previously obtained results.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: