Behavioral Psychology
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Michael Schreiner | May 15, 2015
The Afterlife From The Behavioral Point Of View
From the behavioral point of view heaven is a positive reinforcement and hell is a negative reinforcement. It’s...
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Michael Schreiner | May 8, 2015
Treating People As Bad Or Good Makes Them Bad Or Good
I listened to an interesting interview with an expert on disaster relief on NPR. This was in the...
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Michael Schreiner | April 23, 2015
Psychology Of The High Pressure Sales Situation
Why is the high pressure sales situation so effective in spite of the fact that people loathe being...
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Michael Schreiner | April 20, 2015
Managing Frustration
When you feel frustration rising up you usually also feel an almost irresistible pull to lash out verbally...
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Michael Schreiner | April 10, 2015
Stimulus-Response Man
When writers defame, denigrate, discount, and diminish behavioral psychology they’ll talk about the S-R Man, meaning the Stimulus-Response...
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Michael Schreiner | April 7, 2015
The Slow Fade
If you’ve dated enough people you’re familiar with the slow fade, either because you’ve used it yourself or...
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Michael Schreiner | April 1, 2015
Abuse And Positive Reinforcements
We have written about how positive reinforcements are not necessarily good for you and negative reinforcements are necessarily...
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Michael Schreiner | March 31, 2015
Anxiety Is Your Friend
A negative reinforcement isn’t necessarily bad for you, although it is aversive to you in the moment, and...
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Michael Schreiner | March 20, 2015
Difference Between Negative Reinforcement And Punishment
A question that always pops up in behavioral psychology is what the difference is between negative reinforcement and...
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Michael Schreiner | March 10, 2015
No More Threats
If you want to improve a relationship that has become dysfunctional a concrete way to go about doing...