A neurobiological nonalternative: rejoinder to Lewis, Baumeister, and Mailman.
Certain misrepresentations of our theory of self-stimulatory behavior by Lewis, Baumeister, and Mailman (1987) are corrected and several questions raised by the commentators are answered. Their proposed neurobiological alternative is considered briefly and judged to be insufficiently detailed, inadequate in scope, and therefore premature.
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D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012653:Self Stimulation; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior / Q000502:physiology*