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Chinese soldiers will catch and send back North Koreans, where they face severe punishment.
And one was punishment.
We who had worked in behavior knew that punishment was something that was discussed but also that it was highly overvalued.
Similarly, negative things in social collectives and societies, things like obesity, and violence, imprisonment, and punishment, are exacerbated as economic inequality increases.
For a punishment to achieve its objective, it is only necessary that the harm that it inflicts outweighs the benefit that derives from the crime, and into this calculation ought to be factored the certainty of punishment and the loss of the good that the commission of the crime will produce.
They were working on some legislation that had to do with crime and punishment and capital punishment in the state of Arizona.
So confessing may seem like the best option to most teens, who are less focused on that long-term risk of conviction and punishment down the road as a result of that confession.
Remember, IMUs are for punishment.
Instead of using the chair for punishment, we put it in classrooms.
And it's about a kid who gets a blue whale as a pet but it's a punishment and it ruins his life.
Even as a small child, Minty was hired out to different owners, who subjected her to whippings and punishment.
Which led one scientist to declare that altruistic punishment may be the glue that holds societies together.
This idea, the effect that punishment can improve performance, was what participants thought they were testing in Milgram's famous learning and punishment experiment that you've probably heard about if you're a psychology student.
When they were interviewed after the study, all the participants said that they firmly believed that the learning and punishment study served a worthy scientific purpose which would have enduring gains for science, as opposed to the momentary, nonfatal discomfort caused to the participants.
And you know, outcasting the family is the biggest social punishment one can think of.
Somehow they agreed to punish only me, and the punishment was purification.
It was total nonsense, and I refused to accept that punishment.
This is the hidden underside to our historic experiment in punishment: young people worried that at any moment, they will be stopped, searched and seized.
Can we imagine a criminal justice system that prioritizes recovery, prevention, civic inclusion, rather than punishment?
But this, surely, whoever that man is, whatever he's done, this is cruel and unusual punishment.
Jay Chiat is a glutton for punishment, and he hired me to do a house for him in the Hamptons.
There are two main components in operant conditioning: reinforcement and punishment.
Reinforcement and punishment can be positive or negative, but this doesn't mean good and bad.
Most African slavery had no deeper reason than legal punishment or intertribal warfare, but the Europeans who preached a universal religion, and who had long ago outlawed enslaving fellow Christians, needed justification for a practice so obviously at odds with their ideals of equality.
But, in mythological ancient Greece, the line that separated god from man was absolute and the punishment for mortals who attempted to cross it was severe.
As punishment, Daedalus was banished from Athens and made his way to Crete.
As punishment, Daedalus was forced to construct an inescapable labyrinth beneath the palace for the minotaur.
(Gun shots) Since 2012, the world has witnessed the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice and literally countless other unarmed black citizens at the hands of the police, who frequently walk away with no punishment at all.
Or, maybe you've read an article or a study that examined some controversial policy, like capital punishment.
And, as researchers have demonstrated, if you support capital punishment and the study shows that it's not effective, then you're highly motivated to find all the reasons why the study was poorly designed.
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