Does negative punishment work on dogs?
Broderick Tremblay
2025-06-26 11:23:53
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Negative punishment involves removing something of value as a consequence of bad behavior. An example of negative punishment in Hercules’s example would be for his owners to walk away and ignore him when he playbites. By doing so, they have taken a much desired resource away from him. With consistency, Hercules will soon figure out that whenever he bites playtime stops. Animals are quite good at making correlations. Once the bite-no-play connection is made in Hercules’s mind, he’ll stop the former to continue the latter. One of the reasons we should all be relying primarily on negative rather than positive punishment is that when we make a mistake, the consequences aren’t nearly as dire.
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