behaviorism
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Social cooling, coined by Tijmen Schep, is behaviorism 101.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2022
Skinner’s long-prevailing theory of behaviorism, human behavior was regarded as the result of conditioning through positive and negative reinforcement.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021
This was the rationale behind behaviorism, a now-dead theory of psychology that took this trend to a perverse extreme.
From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2020
This pattern makes a sad kind of sense in the context of behaviorism.
From The Verge • Jan. 24, 2018
Much of the focus in psychology at the time was around behaviorism.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Psychology
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