Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...

Recently, I came across a helpful article by William Baum (2018) 1 on the “three laws of behavior.” Baum is a behavior analyst who works in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, and the article focuses on ...

Perhaps nowhere else is the human tendency to label things and then respond to the label more in evidence than with “the emotions.” We sort episodes of behavior into categories—anger, fear, joy, for ...