behavior modification
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"Understanding precisely how circadian disruption promotes disease progression could lead to behavior modification to reduce cancer risk."
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
A state education official in 2006 called it, “principally a behavior modification center.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Skinner, who suggested four categories for behavior modification: positive reinforcement, positive punishment, negative reinforcement, and negative punishment.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022
“We start very slowly with behavior modification so that we can ease them into life as pet dogs,” Collins explained.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2020
Over a short period of time, things that inmates used for years to abate stress and depression were confiscated, visitation privileges were decreased and discouraged, and a different method of behavior modification was implemented.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2019
