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Originally Posted by sapiens
It may also be the case that the parents have been reinforcing manipulative crying (and the kids have been negatively reinforcing parental capitulation) for so long that it becomes hard to break.
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The behavior is only happening because it has been reinforced. Behavior starts out subtle and experimental, and reinforcement shapes it into what it has become. Ask anyone who's trained a dog--that's the nature of behavior. And no, actually, human beings aren't all that different from dogs, when it comes to behavioral adaptation and reinforcement.