Positive punishment means giving an undesirable consequence after an unwanted behavior to make it less appealing. It aims to stop the behavior from happening again. However, long term, there may be a ...

One of psychology’s few unquestioned verities is behaviorism: You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish. And some nuances can make behaviorism, often called behavior modification, ...

Principles of behavior modification increasingly have been applied to community health education and offer considerable promise for public health in general. Behavior modification procedures can be ...