Based on seemingly overwhelming empirical evidence of the decremental effects of reward
on intrinsic task interest and creativity, the use of reward to alter human behavior has been …

Extensive research with animals and humans indicates that rewarded effort contributes to
durable individual differences in industriousness. It is proposed that reinforcement for …

ACT is a therapy that is based philosophically in clinical behavior analysis. Functional
contextualism is the world view that underlies ACT. Theoretically ACT is based on RFT …

Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires
deriving relations among events: for example, if A= B and A= C, then B= C. Relational frame …

The aim of the third edition of this book is... to provide a lucid introduction to contemporary
phenomena and theories about learning and behavior. The book strives to present a …

Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A
Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of …

Behavioral choices that ignore prior experience promote exploration and unpredictability but
are seemingly at odds with the brain's tendency to use experience to optimize behavioral …

The authors examined 2 ways reward might increase creativity. First, reward contingent on
creativity might increase extrinsic motivation. Studies 1 and 2 found that repeatedly giving …

This chapter is about behavioral processes and cultural processes, how they are related to
one another, and how both are related to biological evolution. The increasing number of …

Although responses are sometimes easy to predict, at other times responding seems highly
variable, unpredictable, or even random. The inability to predict is generally attributed to …