3 conditioning techniques designers use to influence behavior

• Behaviourism suggests that all behaviours can be explained by environmental causes. It includes classical conditioning and operant conditioning.
• This school of thought became dominant in the 1950s and had a significant influence on the course of psychology.

In trying to change a behavior, reason will take you only so far, incentives must be taken into account as well. 

In psychology, operant conditioning is a type of learning in which the strength of a behavior is modified by its consequences, such as reward or punishment. This is th...

• If you are putting off a difficult conversation, identify what makes you feel really good, and do that when you get a moment. Doing so will remind you that you worth caring about. When you feel good, you feel more capable of doing the hard thing.
• Instead of "dump t...