Verbal behavior may be automatically self-punishing. The names of disliked persons and responses appropriate to embarrassing, dangerous, or gruesome episodes generate punishing consequences in the process of being emitted. (p. 375)
Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 15: Self-Editing. Quote 11
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