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Free-mtrix - Free cultural selection and social behavior experiments.
Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Carlos Rafael Fernandes Picanço.
Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Thais Maria Monteiro Guimarães.
Copyright (C) 2016-2019 Universidade Federal do Pará.
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Abstract
Free-mtrix is a set of free softwares (GPL3) for experimentally studying metacontingencies and laboratory micro-cultures. It was designed to be intuitive for researchers from the field of behavioral analysis, but the software may also be useful for behavioral sociologists. One can design and present choice-based tasks similar to the ones reported by Wiggins (1969), Vichi (2004) and Vichi, Andery & Glenn (2009). Participants can choose elements in a matrix (e.g., a row) and the researcher can determine how individual and social consequences will be presented (e.g., custom messages, points and reasoning questions) along different conditions in experiments.
References
Vichi, C. (2004). Igualdade ou desigualdade em pequeno grupo: Um análogo experimental de manipulação de uma prática cultural. Dissertação de Mestrado. São Paulo: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.
Vichi, C., Andery, M. A. P. A., & Glenn, S. S. (2009). A metacontingency experiment: the effects of contingent consequences on patterns of interlocking contingencies reinforcement. Behavioral and Social Issues, 18, 41-57. doi: 10.5210/bsi.v18i1.2292
Wiggins, J. A. (1969). Status differentiation, external consequences and alternative reward distributions. Em R. L Burgess e D. Bussell Jr., Behavioral Sociology (pp. 109-126). New York: Columbia University Press.
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Guimarães, T. M. M., Picanço, C. R., & Tourinho, E. Z. (2019). Effects of negative punishment on culturants in a situation of concurrence between operant contingencies and metacontingencies. Perspectives on Behavior Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-019-00224-z
Ribeiro, D. C. M., Guimarães, T. M. M., Picanço, C. R., Caralho Neto, M. B. & Tourinho, E. Z. (2021). Effects of an Analogue of Negative Reinforcement on the Selection of Culturants. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102.3772e3728