I have written previously about the fact that in today’s increasingly digital world, not every person who is compulsive with pornography is a traditional (trauma-driven) compulsive person. (See my ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

Behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner was a major proponent of operant conditioning as a means to the modification of human behavior. Operant conditioning involves the use of positive or negative ...

From Pavlov’s dogs to genetic switches in our brains, fear learning is shaped by a dance between experience and biology. Classical and operant conditioning explain how fears can form and stick, while ...