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Fish displaying and infants sucking: The operant side of the social behavior coin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Edmund Fantino  and
Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino
Edmund Fantino
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109 efantino@ucsd.edu
Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109 efantino@ucsd.edu
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Abstract

We applaud Domjan et al. for providing an elegant account of Pavlovian feed-forward mechanisms in social behavior that eschews the pitfall of purposivism. However, they seem to imply that they have provided a complete account without provision for operant conditioning. We argue that operant conditioning plays a central role in social behavior, giving examples from fish and infant behavior.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 254 - 255
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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