Many people confuse negative reinforcement with punishment, but these are two different concepts. Negative reinforcement can be used as a strategy to encourage specific behaviors. You probably ...

A trauma bond is characterized by cycles of negative reinforcement interspersed with occasional bursts of positive reinforcement; this so-called intermittent reinforcement makes it very difficult ...

Psychologist B.F. Skinner was a proponent of operant conditioning as a means to the modification of human behavior; positive or negative reinforcement could be used to promote certain behaviors.