title: Reduction of classroom noise levels using group contingencies.
abstract: The therapeutic workplace is an employment-based abstinence reinforcement intervention for unemployed drug users where trainees receive on-the-job employment skills training in a classroom setting. The study is an extension of prior therapeutic workplace research, which suggested that trainees frequently violated noise standards. Participants received real-time graphed feedback of noise levels and had the opportunity to earn monetary group reinforcement for maintaining a low number of noise violations. Results suggested that feedback and monetary reinforcement reduced the number of noise violations.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland Baltimore County.
authors.forename: Brandon M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Ring
authors.forename: Sigurdur O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Sigurdsson
authors.forename: Sean L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Eubanks
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Silverman
mesh_terms: D056228:Feedback, Sensory; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology
keywords: group contingency; monetary reinforcement; noise reduction; real-time feedback; therapeutic workplace