Some determinants of emitted reinforcing behavior: Listener reinforcement and birth order.

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A technique was devised so that listeners instructed to maintain rapport with a speaker could reinforce a prerecorded speaker. It was predicted that a relationship exists between birth order and reinforcing behavior. This hypothesis is based upon knowledge that 1st-born children show greater responsiveness to affliative cues than later-born children. The results indicate that individuals are very consistent in amount of reinforcement emitted, and that initial reinforcing behavior satisfactorily predicts subsequent behavior. The hypothesized relationship between birth order and reinforcing behavior was also confirmed; 1st-born and only children reinforced the speakers more than later-born children. These results indicate that there are meaningful individual differences in reinforcing behavior which can be studied. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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