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On the persistent gray area between teaching and punishment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Jennifer Jacquet
Jennifer Jacquet*
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York, NY 10003. [email protected]://jenniferjacquet.com
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Abstract

One of the challenges to a unifying framework for the study of teaching behavior will be to distinguish, if possible, between teaching by evaluative feedback and punishment.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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