Motivating employees to achieve the desired behavioral outcome is an important leadership function. In a small business it is easier to assess outcomes, so your leadership tactics can be modified ...

Investigators used 3 behavior models to study how to increase health care workers’ compliance with infection prevention and control practices. A key strategy to improve infection prevention and ...

Arthur W. Staats, Ph.D., inventor of "time-out" and the Token Reinforcer System, and a forefather of cognitive behavioral psychology, has passed. Staats was born in 1924 in New York. Following his ...

This post is in response to Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases By Gregg Henriques Ph.D. Given that many readers found my claims about the nature of depression controversial (here and ...

There are many theories on the buying behavior of individuals, and businesses are constantly analyzing them to figure out how to persuade consumers to buy their products and services. Often a customer ...

Not least because of the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories are more topical than ever. They are reported and discussed in almost all media and communication channels. But what influence do they ...

In a law journal note titled “The Seller’s Curse and the Underwriter’s Pricing Pivot: A Behavioral Theory of IPO Pricing,” author Patrick Corrigan considers various theories advanced to explain IPO ...

Behavioral Economics is the application of psychology to the field of economics. It describes the role that psychology plays among consumers, employers, and governments, which then impacts markets and ...

Physicists have developed a dynamical model of animal behavior that may explain some mysteries surrounding associative learning going back to Pavlov's dogs. The Proceedings of the National Academy of ...