Dreading delayed punishment: Reconceptualizing sanction “celerity”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Chae M. Jaynes ◽  
Theodore Wilson
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1955 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bevan ◽  
William F. Dukes

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann J. Abramowitz ◽  
Susan G. O'Leary
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Author(s):  
Guillaume Durand

While the majority of previous studies assessing pain-related variables in psychopaths used electric shocks, little is known about the effectiveness of alternative pain-inducing methods to increase emotional responses such as fear and anxiety. A small sample of healthy undergraduate men (N = 15) was recruited to assess the effectiveness of a heat stimulus to induce pain in an immediate versus delayed punishment paradigm. Although pain catastrophizing, anxiety, and threat of pain did not increase throughout the experiment, participants experienced a significant increase of fear of pain and pain intensity, indicating that the heat stimulus was effective in inducing pain. Furthermore, subjects were slower in initiating the pain stimulus during the first five trials, but no time difference was found during the 15 remaining trials. No correlation was found between psychopathic traits and pain-related variables, with the exception of inconsistent results within the Fearless Dominance factor. Findings are discussed in terms of improvement for a larger scale study involving psychopathic individuals.


1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Vogel-Sprott

The suppression of a rewarded response receiving delayed punishment was examined when a stimulus, previously paired in conditioning trials with punishment, was introduced briefly with the response. Three groups of 20 alcoholics were employed. All received preliminary stimulation by a tone and punishment (shock), but only Group E received these stimuli in a conditioning paradigm. An instrumental response was subsequently trained in all Ss under immediate reward (money). When performance reached criterion, delayed punishment also was administered for this response. During these punished trials, the tone occurred briefly, immediately following the rewarded response for Groups E and C1. The remaining group (C2) received no tone on these trials. The response was more quickly suppressed in E than in C groups, and the two C groups did not differ in response suppression. The evidence was interpreted in terms of classical conditioning principles, and some practical implications of this finding were considered.


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