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标题：A Metacontingency Experiment: The Effects of Contingent Consequences on Patterns of Interlocking Contingencies of Reinforcement
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作者：Christian Vichi ; Maria Amalia Pie Abib Andery ; Sigrid S Glenn 等
期刊名称：Behavior and Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1064-9506
出版年度：2009
卷号：18
页码：41-57
出版社：Behaviorists for Social Responsibility
摘要：College students were assigned to 2 groups of 4 participants each in a reversal design. On each trial participants chose individually how many tokens to bet, and then collectively chose a row on an 8x8 matrix with a plus or minus sign in each cell. After that the experimenter announced a column that determined whether the group won or lost the bets. Before the trial ended, participants had to distribute their earnings. In experimental condition A the group won in trials after distributing proceeds equally on the previous trial, and in condition B they won only after unequal distribution in the previous trial. Results show that the external contingency on distribution (or, as we suggest, metacontingency) selected the groups’ distribution of their earnings.