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Accelerating stimuli for two classes of coercive behaviors

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The analyses focused on a means by which classes of events may be derived from sequential data. A prior analyses of family interaction has derived two classes labeled Hostile and Social Aggression. Events in a class were initiated by a common network of antecedent behaviors. The current analyses showed that class members also shared a common set of maintaining consequences. These events correlated with altered probabilities for the immediate recurrence of a target event.

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The earlier data collection for this investigation was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Section on Crime and Delinquency, Grant No. MH 15985. The analyses and manuscript preparation were supported by MH 25227. The writer gratefully acknowledges the many contributions of R. Jones to the development of the concepts involved in this report.

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Patterson, G.R. Accelerating stimuli for two classes of coercive behaviors. J Abnorm Child Psychol 5, 335–350 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00915083

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