I couldn’t believe they had done this when nine individuals had come out over the preceding three days. Were they blind to this fact? Once again I made the case to Jamar that positive behavior—the release of individuals—needed to be met with positive reinforcement, not humiliating punishment. This is one of the most basic tenets of psychology going back to Pavlov. If you want to train your dog to fetch a newspaper, you don’t kick the dog when it brings you the paper. We had just kicked the dog for doing what we wanted.
