More importantly, with conditioning, there’s always the question of what exactly are you doing? (Particularly acute in cases of positive punishment like electroshock.) As far as the suggestion goes, well… I cannot seem to refind it, but within the last 2 or 3 years I ran into a blog where the author set up a electric shock apparatus for himself hooked up to some software. His final post said (or he said when I asked, I forget) that he stopped because he wound up training himself to not use it and it was too aversive to put on.
More importantly, with conditioning, there’s always the question of what exactly are you doing? (Particularly acute in cases of positive punishment like electroshock.) As far as the suggestion goes, well… I cannot seem to refind it, but within the last 2 or 3 years I ran into a blog where the author set up a electric shock apparatus for himself hooked up to some software. His final post said (or he said when I asked, I forget) that he stopped because he wound up training himself to not use it and it was too aversive to put on.