Principles of behavior modification increasingly have been applied to community health education and offer considerable promise for public health in general. Behavior modification procedures can be ...

B.F. Skinner and others sparked a new psychological worldview now known as behaviorism. It is used in schools, for example, to help children learn a sense of order in the classroom and to focus on ...

A rudimentary definition of behavior modification is encouraging others to behave the way you want, while discouraging the kind of behavior you don't want. The workplace is the ideal setting to ...

A simple, economical, self-contained token reniforcement system was used to increase the amount of time students spent attending to their work in a basic education, junior high classroom. During ...

This guest post was authored by Dr. Marvin R. Goldfried, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University and co-founder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was one of the preeminent American psychologists of the 20th century. B.F. Skinner founded “radical behaviorism”—a twist on traditional behaviorism, a field of psychology that ...

All of the troubles surrounding Facebook and Google can be traced back to a mistake, according to TED speaker and virtual reality visionary Jaron Lanier. At this point, Lanier said, we shouldn't call ...