Citation

Everett PB, Studer RG, Douglas TJ. Am. J. Community Psychol. 1978; 6(4): 327-338.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

The application of operant techniques to large-scale social settings often involves considerable social, economic, political, and/or physical risk. Among the tools required for behavioral interventions in complex systems are those to pretest alternative environmental (e.g., social, economic, political, physical) structures. In this study an urban transportation game was developed for this purpose. During the simulation experiment subjects were rein forced for bus-riding responses on various schedules. Results were consistent with previous laboratory experiments. That is, low levels of bus riding occurredunder conditions of nonreinforcement, intermediate levels emerged under both continuous and variable ratio 36 schedules, and higher levels of bus riding emerged during a variable ratio 6 schedule of reinforcement.