The document discusses the impact of reducing the out-of-plane stiffness of slabs on the behavior of reinforced concrete structures. It presents the results of a response spectrum analysis performed on four models of a 32-story reinforced concrete building, where the out-of-plane stiffness modifier of slabs was reduced from 0.25 to 0.01 between the models. The analysis found that lateral displacement and story drift increased with lower slab stiffness modifiers, while reinforcement demands in shear walls also increased. Reducing slab stiffness better captures cracking effects and improves the seismic performance assessment of such structures.