Behavioral Conditioning

Discussions focus on how incentives, rewards, punishments, and psychological concepts like operant and Pavlovian conditioning shape and modify learned human behaviors.

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mbrodersen Jun 11, 2021 View on HN

People do what gets rewarded. People stop doing what gets punished.

energy123 Apr 18, 2025 View on HN

Behavior won't change until incentives that cause the behavior change.

Jonnax Feb 16, 2019 View on HN

Some people only learn through consequence.

mikemitchelldev Jun 17, 2024 View on HN

It's unfortunately a learned behavior.

VladRussian Mar 22, 2011 View on HN

considering how your behavior was rewarded "we can expect to hear it and variations repeated in every thread forever"

numpad0 May 1, 2025 View on HN

signaling humans for bad behaviors tend to backfire. it program us to recreate that situation in anger. we aren't smart enough to naturally learn lessons that way.

iwasanewt Jul 25, 2013 View on HN

What you're talking about is operant conditioning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning )

watertom May 25, 2020 View on HN

Psychology of habit plays into this.

vinay_ys Dec 28, 2020 View on HN

Sounds like a psychological conditioning (behavior modification) regimen. Beware, it has a very sharp slippery slope towards unethical conditions.

WalterSear Oct 2, 2016 View on HN

This is learned behaviour. It can be unlearned.