Add to ORKGWe report six unsuccessful attempts to replicate the ‘‘work ethic’ ’ phenomenon reported by Clement, Feltus, Kaiser, and Zentall (2000). In Experiments 1–5, pigeons learned two simultaneous discriminations in which the S+ and S2 stimuli were obtained by pecking an initial stimulus once or multiple (20 or 40) times. Subsequent preference tests between the S+ stimuli and between the S2 stimuli mostly revealed indifference, on average, between the S+ from the multiple-peck (high-effort) trials and the S+ from the one-peck (low-effort) trials, and likewise between the two respective S2 stimuli. Using a slightly different procedure that permitted assessment of the relative aversiveness of low versus high effort, Experiment 6 again revealed a pat...
To understand how effort, defined by number of responses required to obtain a reward, affects reward...
In the present experiments, the 2-action method was used to determine whether pigeons could learn to...
Two groups of 4 pigeons learned either matching-to-sample or oddity-from-sample by digging in white ...
Justification of effort by humans is a form of reducing cognitive dissonance by enhancing the value ...
Pigeons that had been trained with a food reward both to peck at and to step on a horizontal plate w...
Pigeons given a choice between making 1 peck to receive food and making 20 pecks will choose to make...
A recent theory of pigeons ’ equivalence-class formation (Urcuioli, 2008) predicts that reflexivity,...
Research in animal and human models suggests that greater reward value is associated with tasks requ...
Pigeons that had been trained with a food reward both to peck at and to step on a horizontal plate w...
The Pavlovian autoshaping paradigm has often been used to assess the behavioral effects of reward om...
Animals, including Humans, are prone to develop persistent maladaptive and suboptimal behaviours. So...
A novel automated procedure was used to study imitative learning in pigeons. In Experiments 1 and 2,...
Humans often treat two stimuli that are associated with a common response as similar in other contex...
To determine if a stimulus associated with nonreinforcement can maintain observing behaviour as pred...
Eight pigeons were first trained to peck 1 button in the presence of 16 distinct 4 X 4 arrays of ide...
To understand how effort, defined by number of responses required to obtain a reward, affects reward...
In the present experiments, the 2-action method was used to determine whether pigeons could learn to...
Two groups of 4 pigeons learned either matching-to-sample or oddity-from-sample by digging in white ...
Justification of effort by humans is a form of reducing cognitive dissonance by enhancing the value ...
Pigeons that had been trained with a food reward both to peck at and to step on a horizontal plate w...
Pigeons given a choice between making 1 peck to receive food and making 20 pecks will choose to make...
A recent theory of pigeons ’ equivalence-class formation (Urcuioli, 2008) predicts that reflexivity,...
Research in animal and human models suggests that greater reward value is associated with tasks requ...
Pigeons that had been trained with a food reward both to peck at and to step on a horizontal plate w...
The Pavlovian autoshaping paradigm has often been used to assess the behavioral effects of reward om...
Animals, including Humans, are prone to develop persistent maladaptive and suboptimal behaviours. So...
A novel automated procedure was used to study imitative learning in pigeons. In Experiments 1 and 2,...
Humans often treat two stimuli that are associated with a common response as similar in other contex...
To determine if a stimulus associated with nonreinforcement can maintain observing behaviour as pred...
Eight pigeons were first trained to peck 1 button in the presence of 16 distinct 4 X 4 arrays of ide...
To understand how effort, defined by number of responses required to obtain a reward, affects reward...
In the present experiments, the 2-action method was used to determine whether pigeons could learn to...
Two groups of 4 pigeons learned either matching-to-sample or oddity-from-sample by digging in white ...