Punishment of elicited aggression.
Aversive shocks are known to produce aggression when the shocks are not dependent on behavior and to suppress behavior when the shocks are arranged as a dependent punisher. These two processes were studied by presenting non-dependent shock to monkeys at regular intervals, thereby producing biting attacks on a pneumatic tube. Immediate shock punishment was stimultaneously delivered for each biting attack. The attacks were found to decrease as a function of increasing punishment intensity. These results show that aggression is eliminated by direct punishment of the aggression even when the stimulus that is used as a punisher otherwise causes the aggression.
D000374:Aggression; D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D004597:Electroshock; D004924:Escape Reaction; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain; D011678:Punishment