You might imagine that people would always seek positive strokes and avoid negative strokes.

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Transactional Analysis

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• You might imagine that
people would always
seek positive strokes and
avoid negative strokes.

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• But in reality, we work by
a different principle : Any
kind of stroke is better
than no stroke at all.

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• This idea is supported
by various gruesome
studies of animal
development.

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• In one, two sets of baby
rats were kept in
identical featureless
boxes. One group was
given electric shocks
several times in a day.

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• The other group were
not. It was found that
group receiving the
shocks developed better
than those left without
stimulation, painful as it
was.

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• We are like those rats.
To satisfy our stimulus
hunger, we can use
negative strokes just as
readily as positive
strokes.

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