behaviorism

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Social cooling, coined by Tijmen Schep, is behaviorism 101.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2022

This was the rationale behind behaviorism, a now-dead theory of psychology that took this trend to a perverse extreme.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2020

In many ways, Staats was an outlier in his field of behaviorism prominent in the 1960s, Minke said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

This pattern makes a sad kind of sense in the context of behaviorism.

From The Verge • Jan. 24, 2018

Much of the focus in psychology at the time was around behaviorism.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel