Parents of oppositional kids often say that consequences don't work. Most of the time, they're referring to punishment.

Even though she may have wanted to, she never did use negative reinforcement to improve our typing speed or technique. We unruly teenagers might have learned to type a lot faster if those IBM ...

In this post, I’ll explain some key distinctions between what people typically mean when they use the ... the use of what psychologists call negative reinforcement (Des Marais, 2024), which ...