Effects of Continuous and Intermittent Cultural Consequences on Culturants in Metacontingency Concurrent With Operant Contingency

Humble Behaviorism Redux

“…That’s it—cultural diversity is the key. Behavior analysts have made noteworthy strides in understanding and accepting culture as a behavioral determinant (Couto, 2019 ; Glenn, 1989 , 2004 ; Malott & Glenn, 2006 ; Miller et al, 2019 ; Soares et al, 2019 ). The dawn of the new ABAI Culturo-Behavior Science for a Better World conference foreshadows an exciting future within our field, which emerged alongside enhanced cultural considerations embedded in the new Ethics Code (BACB, 2020 ).…”

Cultural Survival in B. F. Skinner: Possibilities for Conceptual Refinement

“…The interpretation that a cultural practice is what survives seems, nonetheless, to inform the concept of metacontingency (Glenn et al, 2016 ): “A critical feature of interlocking operant contingencies is that they survive relatively intact even when some of the operant lineages of some of the participating individuals are altered and even when some of the participants themselves quit, die” (Malott & Glenn, 2006 , p. 38). Additionally, experimental studies have suggested that metacontingencies are affected by processes analogous to those at the operant level (e.g., Alves et al, 2018 ; Guimarães et al, 2019 ; Soares et al, 2019 ). The present analysis may help improve conceptual accuracy in the field by clarifying the processes to which cultural survival and evolution apply, and even by suggesting ways to integrate apparently different approaches to cultural selection.…”

Avances del análisis de la conducta en el norte de México

“…También se ha explorado cómo las consecuencias culturales, ya sean de tipo verbal o no verbal, afectan la selección de culturantes (Soares et al, 2018). Además, se ha estudiado el efecto de liberar la consecuencia cultural bajo programas intermitentes (Soares et al, 2019) y se ha investigado el establecimiento de metacontingencias que involucran castigo negativo (Guimarães et al, 2019b). No obstante, en la mayoría de estos estudios se ha observado una baja frecuencia de conductas autocontroladas éticas, lo que significa que los participantes no optan con frecuencia por elegir acciones que generen consecuencias culturales en lugar de maximizar sus ganancias individuales a corto plazo.…”