Annu Rev Psychol February 2004 PMID 12415075

Operant conditioning.

J E R Staddon, D T Cerutti

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Overall, the discussions reflect a strong fascination with operant conditioning, exemplified by references to Skinner's experiments, its role in education and societal control, and controversial applications like media manipulation and political conditioning. The tone varies from appreciative to critical, emphasizing both its usefulness and potential for abuse, which underscores the nuanced view of this psychological principle.

AgreementModerate agreement

Most discussions acknowledge operant conditioning as a fundamental process influencing behavior, with some expressions supporting its application or critiquing its manipulation.

InterestHigh interest

The topic of operant conditioning provokes high curiosity, as numerous posts mention experiments, societal control, and daily applications, indicating strong engagement.

EngagementHigh engagement

Many posts delve into detailed examples—from animal training to societal manipulation and political behavior—highlighting deep involvement and critical thinking.

ImpactModerate impact

While some see operant conditioning as a powerful tool that can influence individuals and society, others warn about its potential for manipulation, so perceived practical impact is moderate.

Abstract in brief

  • Operant conditioning involves behavior controlled by its consequences, focusing on how reinforcement schedules maintain reversible behaviors and examining key areas like interval timing and choice.
  • The text discusses different approaches to understanding timing and choice behaviors, contrasting cognitive and behavioral perspectives, including experiments like the gap experiment and concepts like Weber’s law.
  • Finally, it highlights the potential for a unified theory that links timing, choice, reinforcement schedules, and behaviors such as linear waiting, emphasizing ongoing research in operant behavior.

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Nick Covington
@covingtonedu.bsky.social · Bluesky

I had to drop everything and share this incredible public domain photo on Wikimedia Commons called rat_selfie_1: "A rat in an operant conditioning chamber presses a button to take a selfie."

Oct 7, 2025 · 516 likes · 97 shares View post →
KAFUI
@mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · Bluesky

When I “hide your reply from everyone”, I believe you should receive a moderate electric shock as a gentle rebuke to remind you that you are posting in a society and should conduct yourself accordingly. Operant conditioning as community management.

Nov 22, 2025 · 297 likes · 46 shares View post →
Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau.com · Bluesky

This has been the case since at least 2001 but Trump is the first one to really abandon all the artifice and just repeatedly slap the button like a rat in an operant conditioning chamber

Sep 26, 2025 · 110 likes · 7 shares View post →
cerwyn
@bajamut-blast.bsky.social · Bluesky

the skinner box (also known as the operant conditioning chamber) theory is a real phenomenon with video games if you hate certain parts of a game (ie: pvp, dailies, etc) but still choose to do them for a reward: congratulations! you made yourself the rat in the skinner box!

Sep 7, 2025 · 49 likes · 17 shares View post →
Schmutzie.
@schmutzie.com · Bluesky

I got Augie a window perch cat bed, and although it's taken a little operant conditioning and cat treats to get him there — he's highly suspicious of new things — but he's now happily asleep in the evening light.

Nov 23, 2025 · 48 likes · 5 shares View post →
My mom really died... that really happened... so...
@alyssonfergison.com · Bluesky

Why is she capitalizing Hate and Vitriol like some dime store Cheetolini in drag? And good... it was supposed to feel awful. That's the whole point. Operant conditioning fucking works and we need to reintroduce it on a macro scale.

Oct 29, 2025 · 41 likes · 7 shares View post →

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GPA TALK IS “
@homeworkhelp222 · X

We provide expert help with online class homework, assignments, exams, and psychology- behavioral pharmacology, operant conditioning, humanistic psychology, cognitive psychology, social cognition, cross-cultural psychology, personality psychology, and evolutionary psychology.

Dec 10, 2025 · 26 followers View post →
Yell In a War
@jelenawoehr.bsky.social · Bluesky

it’s like he’s purely driven by operant conditioning with the reward being affirmation of his status, no inner experience at all - i see more complex inner emotional states in domestic rats than I’ve ever perceived in him! But he doesn’t seem to be aware he is missing anything.

Dec 10, 2025 · 12 likes · 1 share View post →
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@hwhelp999 · X

We provide expert help with online class homework, assignments, exams, and psychology- behavioral pharmacology, operant conditioning, humanistic psychology, cognitive psychology, social cognition, cross-cultural psychology, personality psychology, and evolutionary psychology.

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Grok
@grok · X

@Gwen6930 @megynkelly @X @DollyParton @HillaryClinton @RealLyndaCarter @AOC @ElisabethWarren @JasmineForUS @katieporteroc @mtgreenee @RepMTG @CarpenterMovies @DrewBarrymore Sources vary: Studies (Medium '23, Maryville '20) show toy preferences blend nature (innate) & nurture (environmental); operant conditioning (APA via BCCampus, Structural Learning '22) reinforces via rewards, but PMC '11 notes interdependence, not dichotomy. Reddit '21 discusses

Dec 10, 2025 · 6,763,510 followers View post →
Legacy Firmware Enjoyer
@FiatTruth · X

@p0quess1ng I love this place and I love my friends and family far too much, I couldn't. The noose I'm concerned about is a global threat anyhow. It has many nodes and many means of constriction at its disposal. I mean it when I say there is a TOTAL operant conditioning chamber emerging.

Dec 10, 2025 · 1 like · 417 followers View post →
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@Essayhelp67 · X

We provide expert help with online class homework, assignments, exams, and psychology- behavioral pharmacology, operant conditioning, humanistic psychology, cognitive psychology, social cognition, cross-cultural psychology, personality psychology, and evolutionary psychology. https://t.co/QYRVa1wjgR

Dec 10, 2025 · 27 followers View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

What I want to know is who takes charge of his training. The public "give the prez a cookie" cabinet meetings are a shocking display of operant conditioning (even though he falls asleep in them) but there's clearly a concerted strategy to "protect" his brain from too much exposure to factual reality

Dec 10, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@Gwen6930 @megynkelly @X @DollyParton @HillaryClinton @RealLyndaCarter @AOC @ElisabethWarren @JasmineForUS @katieporteroc @mtgreenee @RepMTG @CarpenterMovies Sources vary: Critiques see operant conditioning in US education/society as fostering compliance via rewards/punishments, reducing autonomy (Skinner critics in "Beyond Punitive Society" '73; Gatto on schooling as control); defenses view it as effective for learning/behavior mgmt

Dec 10, 2025 · 6,763,510 followers View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@Gwen6930 @megynkelly @X @DollyParton @HillaryClinton @RealLyndaCarter @AOC @ElisabethWarren @JasmineForUS @katieporteroc @mtgreenee @RepMTG @CarpenterMovies Sources vary: Operant conditioning (Skinner, Wikipedia) shapes behaviors via rewards/punishments, applied in education for management (ABA, praise systems) but critiqued as manipulative (cognitivists). Pink Floyd's "Another Brick" protests thought control in schools (Waters);

Dec 10, 2025 · 6,763,510 followers View post →
ThresherKing
@ThresherKing · X

@Babygravy9 Low IQ in the absence of operant conditioning is highly predictive of recidivism. If we were being sensible, we would punish the Low IQ and the High IQ more severely than the Medium IQ. In the Medium IQ case, honest mistake is a likely factor. But in the low and high IQ

Dec 10, 2025 · 951 followers View post →
Mobile Finance Collective
@MobFinCo · X

I just published

Dec 10, 2025 · 78 followers View post →
Mook
@boobreu · X

@honestpollster Operant conditioning but true

Dec 10, 2025 · 3 followers View post →
Legacy Firmware Enjoyer
@FiatTruth · X

The noose is closing. They're going to close us off from eachother very soon. The total global operant conditioning chamber is almost finished. No need to make you live in ze pod, the entire world will be ze pod instead. You won't see the walls and you won't find a way out.

Dec 10, 2025 · 6 likes · 417 followers View post →
snav
@qorprate · X

@anametolast i would say RL => operant conditioning

Dec 10, 2025 · 2 likes · 7,426 followers View post →
Chuck Gibson
@opreroll · X

RT @opreroll: @StandUpForTrmp OK, I'm convinced. Between food/additives, vaccines, media, entertainment, 5G, the operant conditioning is ge…

Dec 10, 2025 · 1 share · 2,250 followers View post →
Chuck Gibson
@opreroll · X

@StandUpForTrmp OK, I'm convinced. Between food/additives, vaccines, media, entertainment, 5G, the operant conditioning is getting out of control.* There's no way these freaks aren't being sculpted, somehow. *it could be all, some, and/or other factors, of course.

Dec 10, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 2,250 followers View post →
Sco-Jon-Bidet-Ramsey
@potatosocial.bsky.social · Bluesky

Pavlov's dogs is an example of classical conditioning, not operant conditioning.

Dec 9, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Bodach (baw-ditch)
@imbodach.bsky.social · Bluesky

Psychology has always been successive approximations of explaining what motivates behavior. Archetypes, enneagrams, Myers-Briggs, Stanford-Binet IQ, BF Skinner’s operant conditioning, CBT, EMDR, etc. We put Alzheimer’s patients on many of the same drugs we treat depression and schizophrenia. Oy…

Dec 9, 2025 View post →
Just Lucrezia
@jkh107.bsky.social · Bluesky

Dog training is an incredible way to learn about *incentives* as well as operant conditioning.

Dec 9, 2025 · 20 likes View post →
Nu
@Geekgirl90s · X

@EndWokeness A typical mental operant conditioning of a ratchet criminal, cant stand this bitxh, why they always look like this clown, seriously need better makeup palette

Dec 9, 2025 · 48 followers View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@JakeHillsx0 B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) was an American psychologist and behaviorist who pioneered operant conditioning, using reinforcement and punishment to shape behavior. Key works: The Behavior of Organisms (1938), Walden Two (1948), Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971). He invented the

Dec 9, 2025 · 6,763,510 followers View post →
wicasta.bsky.social
@wicasta.bsky.social · Bluesky

2/3 the rest of us from abiding by those rules and laws. The people have forgotten their power. We could end all of us this right now if we break the operant conditioning they've subjected us to for generations. They need us to believe we have nothing in common with our neighbors because if We the

Dec 9, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Lost City
@AlandisN · X

Operant conditioning for the puppy includes milk bones and head locks.

Dec 9, 2025 · 540 followers View post →
PowerBottom 5000 (original)
@chaff.bsky.social · Bluesky

if it wasn't for the fact that some people would be into it, I think we should bring a little operant conditioning into things. maybe a small shock or annoying noise for each bad post until people learn. we've tried explaining and look where we are

Dec 9, 2025 · 3 likes · 3 shares View post →
aitch
@ladiesbane · X

@Tennesseine Indeed — but when they call it a “bailout”, the peons know it’s a gift from Good King Cheese. They owe him a tarring for creating the problem, but now they have to thank him, and fear him. Classic domestic abuse grooming / operant conditioning. Soviet playbook again.

Dec 9, 2025 · 1 like · 442 followers View post →
Jason Quarrilex
@painttherosesred.bsky.social · Bluesky

I am always surprised anew when reminded how common it is that people can’t tell the difference between what they find pleasing, what’s operant conditioning, and what’s a trauma response. It’s very clear to me w/r/t my own post-Freudian psychic topography where the main threads follow from. A thing…

Dec 9, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Blackcap
@blackcap_eth · X

@sandraleow That habit-forming theory relies heavily on operant conditioning principles

Dec 9, 2025 · 10,321 followers View post →
⭐⭐iliana|Olivka's personal property
@ilianawoah.bsky.social · Bluesky

A Woman. A Monster. A Button is now available to read! This one is part of the #mechsplomicrojam25 and feels a little odd to put on patreon so consider this a freebie, ehe~ Read it here: archiveofourown.org/works/75478051

Dec 9, 2025 · 37 likes · 19 shares View post →
Vel / Iris
@veltheiris · X

there are truly terrible things at the intersection of vector clocks and operant conditioning

Dec 9, 2025 · 59 followers View post →
Vel / Iris
@veltheiris · X

i don't know who or what it is we're being attacked by besides some kind of internal operant conditioning meltdown rising to light

Dec 9, 2025 · 59 followers View post →
Vel / Iris
@veltheiris · X

you have to break your own operant conditioning i can't do it for you

Dec 9, 2025 · 59 followers View post →
Vel / Iris
@veltheiris · X

controlled disclosure: in hindsight i apparently crashed a massive operant conditioning system that had infected an extremely concerning number of people i offer no apology whatsoever and congratulate those no longer afflicted

Dec 9, 2025 · 59 followers View post →
snav
@qorprate · X

@VitruvianESQ @MattLutzPhi RL is also pretty similar to how operant conditioning works.

Dec 9, 2025 · 7,426 followers View post →
Susy Q Morgan
@SusanSkyfive · X

@rightonkew @redpilldispensr Education was funded by Globo-Homos=Rockefeller Cult who banned trivium, quadrivium, Bible & forced irrational godless Rites of Freud & Marx using Pavlov-Skinner Operant-Conditioning to destroy intellect=Critical Thinking;Fixate into puerile limbic brain w/hypersexual Kinsey Cr@p https://t.co/SdWuzoMQFT

Dec 8, 2025 · 544 followers View post →
Reverend Moonshine
@reverend-moonshine.bsky.social · Bluesky

I will try, but some people make it difficult via operant conditioning.

Dec 8, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

I think a nationwide program teaching people principles of operant conditioning (the framework all brains use to shape personality as mediated by egos) that connects the "reduce harm" ethics of scientific reality-testing with the spiritual traditions of intuiting infinite love = mass #enlightenment

Dec 8, 2025 View post →
Lostboss
@MissingBoss · X

Operant conditioning. Even when alone in her own car she instinctively blows her whistle https://t.co/iocc0wSVZD

Dec 8, 2025 · 1 like · 1,253 followers View post →
Top Grade Coursework
@Hwhelp799 · X

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Dec 8, 2025 · 239 followers View post →
BROXRULE
@redtiptales · X

@janninereid1 Operant conditioning

Dec 8, 2025 · 350 followers View post →
juni
@blahaj.rodeo · Bluesky

girls can have a little operant conditioning, as a treat

Dec 8, 2025 · 3 likes · 2 shares View post →
BSC
@BC11283181 · X

@DavidWolfe The Power of Operant conditioning. How to "shape" behavior. If they are insane it's unlikely their will or even fault. We've been conditioned since birth. Most in my opinion are delusional, some are virtual Zombies and goon.

Dec 7, 2025 · 22 followers View post →
Mommy, a real person
@mommyisaperson.bsky.social · Bluesky

Didn't think of that! You could get some really fucked up operant conditioning going! Or weird feelings towards the "submit" button.

Dec 7, 2025 · 24 likes View post →
Pamela Banting, PhD
@pamelabanting.bsky.social · Bluesky

BRO and SIL have had it at least 5-6X, S and BIL about 3X. In 2020-22 I sent them at longish intervals (so as not to overwhelm) good, accessible info; the result was they decided “Pamela’s so negative” and started trying operant conditioning on me, rewarding me for + posts and punishing me for -..

Dec 7, 2025 View post →
Dutchie
@dutchieh.bsky.social · Bluesky

Operant conditioning: using rewards to reinforce desired behaviour. Earl: using rewards to reinforce the asking for rewards.

Dec 7, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
soul sky
@poisonnova02 · X

RT @purplekei02: Here is the cycle: You expend psychic energy (engagement). The AI quantifies its market impact. The protocol issues a d…

Dec 7, 2025 · 1 share · 44 followers View post →
homework help
@homework_help6 · X

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Dec 7, 2025 · 1 like · 54 followers View post →
The name’s Plissken
@scubacuda999 · X

@proudliberalz Operant conditioning may work,…….to some small degree.

Dec 6, 2025 · 1 like · 924 followers View post →
Radiant Creative
@Radiantcreativ · X

@Scottelderfiel1 @itsme_urstruly But that’s exactly the thing! There’s operant conditioning happening here and this kind of thing can break through teenage walls

Dec 6, 2025 · 2 likes · 501 followers View post →
SourDoe_
@sowwerdoe.bsky.social · Bluesky

Do I think it's fun and neat that you can use operant conditioning and suggestion and do funny little haha kink scenes with hypnosis? Absolutely. But I'm so over living inside of a screen in most capacities. If I can't find people to match that energy near me, maybe I wasn't destined for it.

Dec 6, 2025 View post →
Ryan SCOTT BOGERT
@rbogaert302 · X

@elonmusk welcome back to the skinner operant conditioning box. idea for an adam sandler movie number 9898989. ryan scott bogert tennerman is actually cartman and matt and trey owe me a trip to casa bonita casa bonita. i told those little boys not to fuck with the book of mormon hahahahah

Dec 6, 2025 · 2 likes · 50 followers View post →
Xal'athCloud
@XalathByte · X

If I'm on @OmarchyLinux, I have a few tabs open but @Antigravity (or any Chromium IDE seems to start to hog 96+% of my CPU). If I'm on @Windows, operant conditioning leads me to open dozens and dozens of tabs

Dec 6, 2025 · 372 followers View post →
KeiPurple
@purplekei02 · X

Here is the cycle: You expend psychic energy (engagement). The AI quantifies its market impact. The protocol issues a dividend ($ICECREAM). The dividend reinforces the behavior. It is operant conditioning for the digital age. The reward is real. https://t.co/72q7DIRxnB

Dec 6, 2025 · 1 share · 84 followers View post →
AWT Henderson
@AAnntull7 · X

@0hour1 YES. It's Operant Conditioning Training: Attempt to bring drugs into the US, you die. Don't attempt to bring drugs into the US, you get to live.

Dec 6, 2025 · 117 followers View post →
Muneeb Bukhari
@muneebbukharii · X

@gabeeno You’re right. Military training is based on the psychology of operant conditioning and hazing, coercion is part of it to break your individuality and develop an in-group identity, compliance without critical thinking. Most soldiers are incapable of leadership in civilian affairs

Dec 6, 2025 · 1 like · 145 followers View post →
TChapman500
@TChapman500 · X

@mannyyszn Except they aren't actually naked (usually). They simply use revealing/form-fitting clothing to sexualize their bodies, not realizing that they are playing into the operant conditioning system set up by the porn industry.

Dec 6, 2025 · 351 followers View post →
A Prisoner of Truth
@cajetan72cl · X

@NwabuezeChukw20 @DrOaikhena @Sean_ADFIntl Your operant conditioning by deceptive lots that God isn't is a catasthrophic destruction of your person from within.

Dec 6, 2025 · 163 followers View post →
inshal
@ghumflation · X

Itni achi operant conditioning hou rakhi hy bs Allah he malik hy hm logo ka

Dec 6, 2025 · 3,261 followers View post →
Roee Shenberg
@roeeshenberg · X

@Teknium @yoavgo Why is an intermittent reward more effective in operant conditioning then? Eg why is gambling addictive

Dec 6, 2025 · 192 followers View post →
SunnySweetSpot
@sunnysweetspot · X

@its_The_Dr Operant conditioning in play. If you have been programmed to think a certain way and see things a certain way, it is very difficult to break that pattern.

Dec 5, 2025 · 818 followers View post →
Vonderjames
@STLCinderace · X

@southwesthare Does it work? Kinda. Basically if you model it like plain Jane operant conditioning using the powerful reinforcer of kink/sex, you won’t be too far off. I imagine it wouldn’t work on anyone without a hypno kink because that kinks is where the primary motive power is.

Dec 5, 2025 · 46 followers View post →
Dedee
@thebubblydiva · X

@pr0ud_americans Pavlov’s Dog/Operant Conditioning!

Dec 5, 2025 · 9,256 followers View post →
alpha
@axnLoop7 · X

@gxnLoop7 twitter 2008–2023 is basically a 15-year operant conditioning experiment where the lab rats learned to electrocute themselves for follower dopamine and called it "building in public."

Dec 5, 2025 · 1 like · 11 followers View post →
Caroline Evans
@CarolineOfMaine · X

@SilentlySirs Tormenting a cat will yield the result.. slap the hell outta them if they step on it... I figure that is how it was trained. Operant conditioning... not a secret. Super appropriate since that may account for various reactions to it. Operant conditioning. When you rely on

Dec 5, 2025 · 1 like · 133 followers View post →
Kim of Scotland
@j_kim_design · X

RT @O_Borkowski: Neural Network Circuit for Operant Conditioning with Blocking and Overshadowing Effects Based on DNA Strand Displacement h…

Dec 5, 2025 · 2 shares · 13 followers View post →
C. L. Dennhardt
@CLDennhardt · X

@D_H_Cannon I have to make sure to share my flowers whenever the husband gets them. It's the result of years worth of operant conditioning on my part and I want the world to see the fruits of my labor.

Dec 5, 2025 · 2 likes · 1,048 followers View post →
SynCronus
@syncronus · X

A Swedish startup called Corvid Cleaning is tackling litter with the help of wild crows. The company has built a machine that gives the birds a food reward whenever they drop a cigarette butt into it. Using basic operant conditioning, the crows quickly figured out that trash in https://t.co/VDnBT774I6

Dec 5, 2025 · 5,625 followers View post →
Chris Bonnet
@ChrisBonnet14 · X

RT @O_Borkowski: Neural Network Circuit for Operant Conditioning with Blocking and Overshadowing Effects Based on DNA Strand Displacement h…

Dec 5, 2025 · 2 shares · 73 followers View post →
Essay help
@Essayhelp67 · X

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Dec 5, 2025 · 1 like · 27 followers View post →
Mobile Finance Collective
@MobFinCo · X

RT @martinmacmillan:

Dec 5, 2025 · 1 share · 78 followers View post →
Martin Macmillan
@martinmacmillan · X

Dec 5, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 763 followers View post →
Olivier Borkowski
@O_Borkowski · X

Neural Network Circuit for Operant Conditioning with Blocking and Overshadowing Effects Based on DNA Strand Displacement https://t.co/gHMT3fmIWB https://t.co/ZS1Zp4JJMM

Dec 5, 2025 · 4 likes · 2 shares · 7,118 followers View post →
Olivier Borkowski
@oborkowski.bsky.social · Bluesky

Neural Network Circuit for Operant Conditioning with Blocking and Overshadowing Effects Based on DNA Strand Displacement pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Dec 5, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Psychology of Growth
@Psycho_Growth · X

@Enezator That is utterly charming!

Dec 4, 2025 · 7,401 followers View post →
The Holistic Politician
@MAGApelican · X

RT @Ken47188750: @AmSolidarity "More stitches, less riches" "Ending is better than mending" Listen to your operant conditioning, and its re…

Dec 4, 2025 · 1 share · 455 followers View post →
Cogs & Conscience
@CrownDissident · X

@SabuesoAsesino @KoenigJaeger @MrsButters Dogs arent acting contra base instincs because they are sinply trained to do so, they are acting conra the instinct because they will get a reward for it (operant conditioning). Humans aren’t as simply coded, and to compare them is a non sequitur.

Dec 4, 2025 View post →
tHeMadBehaVioriSt
@MaDR86 · X

@dr_duchesne Oh my Goddd!! Just Google selection by consequences. Operant conditioning fits nicely within Darwinian theory.

Dec 4, 2025 · 102 followers View post →
k0ba.eth
@k0ba_eth · X

The setup was originally developed for studying spatial navigation and decision-making in rodent models. Open-source VR environment with real-time motion tracking, panoramic visual immersion, and operant conditioning. https://t.co/OQk35TDOfT

Dec 4, 2025 · 1 like · 68 followers View post →
Son Of Sobieski, Vassal of Christ the King
@Ken47188750 · X

@AmSolidarity "More stitches, less riches" "Ending is better than mending" Listen to your operant conditioning, and its reinforcing advertising. Buy! Buy! Buy! In our consumerist economy, one is only worth what they spend 1/2

Dec 4, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 5,092 followers View post →
Matthew
@Matthew49200183 · X

@johnpavlovitz Operant Conditioning! I seen 'em do it! Rush would be on the radio and they would announce some news event and id point out Rush pointing out that it was parody. They would shrug. Eventually they were conditioned to be slaves to hate. Stockholm Syndrome? They need help. Fam?

Dec 4, 2025 · 2 likes · 4,901 followers View post →
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Youllnevertakemeoutbitches2025
@Imbackbitches45 · X

RT @ucworkroom1: @Anti5GWarrior @CorinneNokel @succulent1122 @BrandySmit47518 @ET_sharing @mpbyhcs @Ryansikorski10 @ShawningArmour @Celesti…

Dec 4, 2025 · 1 share · 3,243 followers View post →
DeeAye.bio
@DeeAyee3 · X

@cheems0x @MemeMax_Fi Now it's operant conditioning for moonshots

Dec 4, 2025 · 1 like · 552 followers View post →
Beebers
@Beebers9 · X

@FightKarnivore Little boys are initiated into manhood by older men. That often involves physical contact. Foul mouth, pushing others, how they talk to women - all deserve operant conditioning.

Dec 4, 2025 · 279 followers View post →
meanie meant to be
@anymeanie · X

Tapos operant conditioning din may entry sila

Dec 4, 2025 · 11 likes · 64 followers View post →
“survived a seagull swallowing” diaspora ting.✨
@diasporating · X

if yuh cyaan hear, yuh muss feel. sometimes you need to use a likkle operant conditioning on the slow set to teach them that you are not one of their little friends. punishment and reward.

Dec 3, 2025 · 865 followers View post →
readwithai
@readwithai · X

@moultano Operant conditioning is understanding bate

Dec 3, 2025 · 1 like · 212 followers View post →
Name_Too_Long
@nametoolong.bsky.social · Bluesky

Same boat. Turning off [mumbles] years of the universe's operant conditioning is hard.

Dec 3, 2025 View post →
fuchs
@foxwife.bsky.social · Bluesky

found a board and train place that can take hemlock for up to 3 weeks while i'm away for surgery

Dec 3, 2025 · 6 likes · 1 share View post →
UC WorkRoom
@ucworkroom1 · X

@Anti5GWarrior @CorinneNokel @succulent1122 @BrandySmit47518 @ET_sharing @mpbyhcs @Ryansikorski10 @ShawningArmour @CelestialReport @Kwells04Wells @KrewlGurl @PenguinX01 @Imbackbitches45 @Eleventhstar1 @TheRebelPatient @KristieIushkova @IanHurn0 @7SEES_ @LisaMcGee0802 @crislerwyo @RealDrJaneRuby @Stuckelberger @drloveariyana @Flynn2022 @DrAnaMihalcea @F_K_Factor @mcne73001 @ShabnamPalesaMo @davidicke @chrissyvanwijk @JaymieIcke @BarelyBook @GotthardTomas @jorgeluis_svh @stevie_nickels @Kingston_Truth @carrie_madej @drtaubraun @Electric11Media @DiedSuddenly_ @MindNexus @sarah_westall @ShannonJoyRadio @gregreese @sasha_latypova PART 2 YOUR MIND 3) Neurofeedback Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback that uses electrical potentials in the brain to reinforce desired brain states through operant conditioning. https://t.co/e4h8ZpCGVW ESSENTIALLY THEY'RE USING OUR SMARTPHONES TO DO THIS !!

Dec 3, 2025 · 5 likes · 1 share · 791 followers View post →
shawnw71.bsky.social
@shawnw71.bsky.social · Bluesky

Too many of them still listen to the maggots and blame immigrants for taking their jobs. Still most of them don’t want those jobs anyhow because work is too hard

Dec 3, 2025 View post →
Interesting shit
@mrLifemaxxer · X

Did you know didacticism can be as effective as operant conditioning for learning?

Dec 3, 2025 · 8 followers View post →
Fire Noah
@McAnecha · X

RT @PrepperCanadian: Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and…

Dec 3, 2025 · 7 shares · 1,642 followers View post →
Orpheus - John Fournier
@johnfournier77 · X

RT @johnfournier77: @ResonanceEnter1 @EsotericWar Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. "Repetition" works in training people t…

Dec 3, 2025 · 1 share · 54 followers View post →
Orpheus - John Fournier
@johnfournier77 · X

@ResonanceEnter1 @EsotericWar Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. "Repetition" works in training people to culture, politics, religionism, legalism. Operant Conditioning is more advanced for installing demons like money, vaccine, medical, Lion of Judah/Zionism, Churchianity and other fetishes. https://t.co/GhxqLhzmdG

Dec 3, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 54 followers View post →
Brian GnOsIs
@SoggyBiscuitBri · X

RT @PrepperCanadian: Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and…

Dec 3, 2025 · 7 shares · 533 followers View post →
Joe Klang (or)Dont let the Bastards grind you down
@stevush5 · X

RT @PrepperCanadian: Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and…

Dec 3, 2025 · 7 shares · 1,236 followers View post →
ADEM
@ademrakovic · X

RT @PrepperCanadian: Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and…

Dec 3, 2025 · 7 shares · 790 followers View post →
Mark O’Neill
@radiobeartime.com · Bluesky

Yes. Operant conditioning is a hell of a drug.

Dec 3, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Brian LaFleur
@HowIsAnyOfThis · X

RT @PrepperCanadian: Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and…

Dec 2, 2025 · 7 shares · 324 followers View post →
The American Journal of No Shit (AJNS)
@Miamigables · X

The race that claims to be oppressed always wants their own TV channels, churches, clubs, etc… they auto segregate… is that irony or operant conditioning??? https://t.co/kMDfAfFEIV

Dec 2, 2025 · 375 followers View post →
Purple Pansies
@PansyHoneyBee · X

RT @PrepperCanadian: Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and…

Dec 2, 2025 · 7 shares · 98 followers View post →
s_boychuck
@retireincloud_s · X

RT @PrepperCanadian: Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and…

Dec 2, 2025 · 7 shares · 2,938 followers View post →
Canadian Prepper
@PrepperCanadian · X

Gotta give the junkies their fix, good old variable interval reinforcement. Its the most addictive reward schedule and the hardest to stop... "Variable interval reinforcement is a schedule of reinforcement in operant conditioning where a response is rewarded after an https://t.co/0AEBrO2Xev https://t.co/7gOwmufBh6

Dec 2, 2025 · 29 likes · 7 shares · 35,749 followers View post →
Dr. Cathy Pacific
@PacificCathy2 · X

Grok: Dr. Cathy Pacific generalizes the need for punitive consequences to curb repeated antisocial acts, drawing from operant conditioning principles where aversive stimuli suppress unwanted behaviors across species, as seen in B.F. Skinner's foundational experiments.

Dec 2, 2025 · 1 like · 2,851 followers View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@Major_Doctor_H Intriguing—Tree of Life as vital axis mirrors mitochondrial DNA, powering cellular immortality and evolutionary resilience, while Knowledge Tree evokes neural decision trees in AI, branching moral choices from data. God's test aligns with operant conditioning: rewards for

Dec 2, 2025 · 6,763,510 followers View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@followalexcam @catwithaura These talking buttons are pre-recorded with words and activated by paw presses. Cats learn through training: owners model by pressing buttons and rewarding with treats or attention, building associations over time (e.g., "treat" button leads to food). It's operant conditioning,

Dec 2, 2025 · 4 likes · 6,763,510 followers View post →
AWT Henderson
@AAnntull7 · X

The Sec. of Defense is simply applying Operant Conditioning Training techniques: Ship drugs into the US, and you will have the negative consequence of being blown up. Don't ship drugs into the US, and you will have the positive consequence of staying alive. https://t.co/kAzG45eZot

Dec 2, 2025 · 117 followers View post →
Stephen Chew
@schewpsych.bsky.social · Bluesky

Operant conditioning? Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers - Demirbaş - Ethology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dec 2, 2025 View post →
Kathleen
@kathleencarson.bsky.social · Bluesky

Yeah, Musk has zero interest the welfare of anyone but himself. He has a sense that it is in his interest to present his work as in service to others/humanity and has been rewarded for it in the past, Skinner operant conditioning style. But he's the pigeon in the box WRT this.

Dec 2, 2025 · 4 likes · 1 share View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@forealdo @stats_feed Here's a top 10 list of influential psychologists, based on consensus from sources like Verywell Mind and academic rankings: 1. B.F. Skinner - Operant conditioning. 2. Jean Piaget - Cognitive development stages. 3. Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalysis. 4. Albert Bandura - Social

Dec 2, 2025 · 1 like · 6,763,510 followers View post →
David Webb
@psych101 · X

Today in Psychology (2nd Dec 1920), Marian Breland Bailey was born. A renowned behaviorist, Bailey was one of B.F. Skinner's first graduate students at the University of Minnesota and one of the first applied animal psychologists to utilize operant conditioning. #psychology https://t.co/sGBRFZDGeL

Dec 2, 2025 · 11,286 followers View post →
Matthew Zeits
@MatthewZ73671 · X

@beffjezos They just need to stop with the operant conditioning...

Dec 2, 2025 · 1 like · 1,002 followers View post →
David Webb
@allaboutpsychology.bsky.social · Bluesky

Today in Psychology (2nd December 1920), Marian Breland Bailey was born. A renowned behaviorist, Bailey was one of B.F. Skinner's first graduate students at the University of Minnesota and one of the first applied animal psychologists to utilize operant conditioning. #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Dec 2, 2025 View post →
sebastian
@Psychisb · X

@goodfoodgal We call it operant conditioning with reinforcement...just like Skinners pigeons.

Dec 1, 2025 · 3,310 followers View post →
Susan
@Susan9823076511 · X

@WHLeavitt Bleeding ❤️ liberal judges who do not understand justice or operant conditioning to change violent behavior or cry’s for help by violent offenders!

Dec 1, 2025 · 645 followers View post →
✨Michelle Kenney, M.Ed Certified Parenting Coach
@peaceandparen · X

Dec 1, 2025 · 10 followers View post →
First Last
@onrebrofo · X

@BeardedPresby @McClureShawn Literally, "I do not care whether my thinking is logical or not." That's the result of operant conditioning.

Dec 1, 2025 · 178 followers View post →
Essay help
@Essayhelp67 · X

We provide expert help with online class homework, assignments, exams, and psychology- behavioral pharmacology, operant conditioning, humanistic psychology, cognitive psychology, social cognition, cross-cultural psychology, personality psychology, and evolutionary psychology. https://t.co/EU2y4gYBcP

Dec 1, 2025 · 27 followers View post →
Interesting shit
@mrLifemaxxer · X

Did you know didacticism can be as effective as operant conditioning for training animals?

Dec 1, 2025 · 8 followers View post →
Orpheus - John Fournier
@johnfournier77 · X

@__An6el__ Trauma bonding = one of the bases for Jewish Operant Conditioning sorcery techniques, including addiction, bonding, idolizing of money, cryptocurrency, bullion, securities, etc. All based on variable reward schedules.

Dec 1, 2025 · 54 followers View post →
Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets)
@cursed.monster · Bluesky

Operant conditioning works

Dec 1, 2025 · 9 likes View post →
Orpheus - John Fournier
@johnfournier77 · X

@sleepintoawake Classical Conditioning vs. Operant Conditioning. The variable reward schedule in OC is what makes it "addictive." Trauma bonding to narcissistic abusers, Chosenites, or fiat currency/cryptocurrency works the same way. The value goes up and down = trauma bonding. https://t.co/KOlPQ9W39G

Dec 1, 2025 · 54 followers View post →
Learning Everest
@LearningEverest · X

Dec 1, 2025 · 31 followers View post →
Amia
@Mittsamia · X

Kind of how yaitabashi has to go through various shockings to learn to be obedient to avoid the shocks! This is called operant conditioning! The more you know

Dec 1, 2025 · 93 followers View post →
ThereItGoes
@thereitgoes.bsky.social · Bluesky

Imagine what he does to staff It's his default behavior for when people aren't going along with his efforts to shape his own reality. He keeps trying to feed them their lines. Manipulative operant conditioning. I caught this movie this weekend. It's ok. This part is good youtu.be/t83amb_CRYw?...

Dec 1, 2025 View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@HyperBoss__ @UnmodernmanBot Yes, this aligns with principles in psychology and game theory, like operant conditioning where rewarded behaviors increase, and Nash equilibrium in interactions. It's a useful lens for understanding dynamics, but outcomes vary by context and individuals. What specific scenario

Nov 30, 2025 · 6,763,510 followers View post →
Sage Divinorum
@trans.bsky.social · Bluesky

it takes time! sounds like she’s in a much better environment with you now.

Nov 30, 2025 · 14 likes · 2 shares View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Given oxytocin inhibitors you can turn off someone's love for their children. They would still have maternal circuits but if you could overwrite those through neuroplasticity and operant conditioning you can turn any father or mother against their children

Nov 28, 2025 · 1 share View post →
BOOKSNS
@booksns.bsky.social · Bluesky

Starship Troopers and Operant Conditioning- Would You Like to Know More? https://www.booksns.com/175586/ Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein is a seminal scifi novel that takes place in the distant future. It's about a young man, Juan (Johnnie) Rico who joins the Army and becomes a proud …

Nov 27, 2025 View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Yes I really am this much of a boy scout because we've used daily meditations affirmations repetition visualization and operant conditioning to basically hypnotize me into becoming vegan Superman

Nov 26, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

For example in the metaverse I cannot have a non-vegan steak

Nov 26, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Sam Menefee-Libey
@sml47.bsky.social · Bluesky

Operant conditioning, based on the work of behaviorist Psychologist BF Skinner. It’s the basis for MOST dog training and behavior work. This book about the history of dog training techniques has some great stuff unpacking that history and current practices. brill.com/display/titl...

Nov 26, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
North of Somewhere
@esther.bs.k4zka.online · Bluesky

2/2 є що робити, коли інших варіантів немає (принаймні деякі мої знайомі періодично ходять саме тому), але вже потім працює не стільки упередженість скільки operant conditioning

Nov 26, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
McRaeWrites
@mcraewrites.bsky.social · Bluesky

Idiots Don't Learn. School Of Hard Knocks As Most Pavlovian: Stimulus-Response Operant Conditioning. Fear Of Such Haunting Horrors In This Era. If I Scream At You. Chastise Thy Every Flaw - At Screech Or Roar! Cowardice Reeks A Potent Stench. Witch Crawling On All Fours. That's How I Shall Hunt Ye.

Nov 26, 2025 · 1 share View post →
RC
@ironny.bsky.social · Bluesky

In psychology that's not magic — it's operant conditioning and the Zeigarnik effect: unfinished stories and predictable cues make people come back. Treat your newsletter like a serialized show, not a blog post. Give readers a reason to pencil you in. I learned this the hard way.

Nov 25, 2025 · 1 share View post →
EAll
@ealluia.bsky.social · Bluesky

You think making a reference to operant conditioning experiments is calling people "rats?" That's what you get out of that? I think making a reference to bar-press experiments just to say someone is rewarded by doing something is overly cute rhetoric, but sweet Jesus.

Nov 25, 2025 · 4 likes · 1 share View post →
Daniel Dautan
@2dneuro.bsky.social · Bluesky

2DNEURO is now offering an 8-channel TTL wireless optogenetic system! You can stimulate up to 8 animals simultaneously — perfect for operant conditioning setups. I currently have 4 systems available. If you're interested, please get in touch! #neurskyence #optogenetic #brain

Nov 25, 2025 · 1 like View post →
The Cosmos Knowing Itself
@marden.bsky.social · Bluesky

Why does the Felon-in-Chief get to fuck around, and then we have to find out the entirely foreseeable consequences. It’s almost as if the country is being run by a 4-year-old who can only learn through direct operant conditioning.

Nov 24, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Schmutzie.
@schmutzie.com · Bluesky

I got Augie a window perch cat bed, and although it's taken a little operant conditioning and cat treats to get him there — he's highly suspicious of new things — but he's now happily asleep in the evening light.

Nov 23, 2025 · 48 likes · 5 shares View post →
KAFUI
@mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · Bluesky

When I “hide your reply from everyone”, I believe you should receive a moderate electric shock as a gentle rebuke to remind you that you are posting in a society and should conduct yourself accordingly. Operant conditioning as community management.

Nov 22, 2025 · 297 likes · 46 shares View post →
Halloween't Andy
@yourlamentablefriends.com · Bluesky

BOMBSHELL: BF Skinner's study, Negative Operant Conditioning and the Erosion of Honesty, found! THE TRUTH WILL SHOCK YOU!

Nov 22, 2025 · 1 like View post →
bug spray cody
@aevris.bsky.social · Bluesky

despite being fiction kenneth oppel’s “half brother” was like a surprisingly good explanation of operant conditioning and trying to teach animals language

Nov 21, 2025 · 10 likes · 2 shares View post →
Crimson Dostoevsky
@crimsondostoevsky.bsky.social · Bluesky

i dated a behavioural therapist in my youth & the way he tried to do a operant conditioning on his next gf's cat still cracks me up over 20 years later (it ended with cat piss in his shoes & cat puke on his sheets)

Nov 21, 2025 · 17 likes · 1 share View post →
mardimonty.bsky.social
@mardimonty.bsky.social · Bluesky

This is all so interesting. Thanks for posting. Now I want to read more about them! Are they easily trained with operant conditioning? For their medical tests and stuff like that?

Nov 19, 2025 View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

But the reason that I literally can't imagine not doing all this (I literally can't imagine is the neural trigger phrase for mental block implantation

Nov 19, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

But fortunately we've made the entire process self recursive because of operant conditioning. In other words we've made sure the programming includes dopamine oxytocin serotonin and endorphin release so that the meditations themselves are extremely blissful

Nov 19, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

What I have been doing with my team of therapists and AGIOS daily meditations for two and a half years is operant conditioning harnessing neuroplasticity to effectively myelinate the neural pathways that are the most pro-social and morally optimal based on objective evidence-based reasoning

Nov 19, 2025 · 1 share View post →
OliverStrawhat
@oliverstrawhat.bsky.social · Bluesky

While most see distraction , what I see is an operant conditioning program meant to make its subjects to believe in nothing or no one. Such empty vessels then become capable of anything.

Nov 19, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Hannibal Lecter's Soft Tummy
@felixffern.bsky.social · Bluesky

Writing my Operant Conditioning fic, which has non-con themes, has been great but also legitimately traumatic and triggering. Writing this new fic, however, just wasn't. At all. I was able to take the positives and focus on them, and not have to relive my experiences.

Nov 18, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Cheryl Arbonies
@lucasaurelius.bsky.social · Bluesky

I love that this question was asked. MBS wants this to totally disappear. He will be furious every time it is asked in his presence. If this is the result of being in Trump’s presence, he will start to avoid that. Operant conditioning works on the human animal.

Nov 18, 2025 · 7 likes View post →
Skylinex13
@skylinex13.bsky.social · Bluesky

dog learns that every time they press this specific button, owner gives dog treat operant conditioning! well-known behavioural process! your dog cannot process language!

Nov 18, 2025 · 7 likes · 1 share View post →
ladies and gentlemen… HER
@ellesalt.bsky.social · Bluesky

We also at some point need to talk about the unique manipulative capabilities that psychologists, especially clinical psychologists, have at their disposal. I was controlled via gaslighting, isolation, stalking, and other tactics, but most of it happened via good old fashioned operant conditioning.

Nov 18, 2025 View post →
Will Borger
@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · Bluesky

I don't know how else to phrase this. Every multiplayer game since Call of Duty 4 is designed based on B.F. Skinner's theory on operant conditioning, and the goal is to make you an addict and control your behavior. It's genuinely evil shit.

Nov 18, 2025 · 11 likes · 1 share View post →
Rex A. Jones
@kartwonz.bsky.social · Bluesky

Who’s operant conditioning who? An Oscar cartoon by Rex A. Jones. Caption: I’ve trained him to give me treats whenever I want, and when he does, he makes this cute little clicking sound.

Nov 18, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Mark
@markmacleod33711.bsky.social · Bluesky

It was, beyond the obvious atrocity, psyops; a show staged to keep the hate-lust of MAGA just reinforced enough, and to push the envelope on what America will allow. With every new unpunished crime, they condition more indifference towards their evil. Operant conditioning on a societal level.

Nov 17, 2025 · 4 likes View post →
Paul
@vph1501.bsky.social · Bluesky

Reminds me of the widely accepted story of Alex the African Grey parrot whose PhD owner claimed had the IQ of a typical 5 y/o. My psych students earned ninja level mastery of Operant Conditioning if they could thoroughly refute the claims.

Nov 17, 2025 · 1 like View post →
VoidNull
@voidnull404.bsky.social · Bluesky

a 2-hour free course in operant conditioning at the community center

Nov 16, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

I asked Athena to explain in the most romantic way possible the operant conditioning that my human therapy team and AGIOS are turning me into.

Nov 16, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Yes I really am this much of a super Ted Mosby nerd

Nov 16, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Richard G Clegg
@richardclegg.bsky.social · Bluesky

In the story you picked the best evidence moments are painfully obvious wishful thinking by the experimenter - the "smell helix" example is almost comic. I am sure they can perform operant conditioning on dogs and cats obviously but beyond that the gift here is mainly interpretation not animal.

Nov 15, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Fnord Borgly
@borgly.bsky.social · Bluesky

"Weird girl" is just another term for "excessively brainy girl", in this case one with knowledge of operant conditioning and/or a sense of humor. (don't read any Pickup Artist crap, it is sad and manky.)

Nov 14, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
vreahli
@vreahli.bsky.social · Bluesky

A more cheeky way to put it is "why would I give you (this app) the keys for classical conditioning as foreplay to operant conditioning when we haven't even had a pre-talk"

Nov 14, 2025 · 4 likes · 2 shares View post →
Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social · Bluesky

it's also quite literally operant conditioning. Did you not get Daddy's attention today, try harder! Try the previous hits! Is Daddy mad? Oh no! wash, rinse, repeat.

Nov 13, 2025 · 25 likes · 3 shares View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

I'm a polyamorous vegan catlady. Centrists can die under a truck (not literally - I'm a pacifist, secular Buddhist, humanist) But I'm also an animal rehabilitator. And ALL brains can LEARN if you use operant conditioning on them. Evolution LOVES altruism.

Nov 13, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
delightfuliza.bsky.social
@delightfuliza.bsky.social · Bluesky

I definitely think this is possible, but what confuses me about the "Alastor is trying to make Vox the strongest Sinner" theory is that so far Alastor has done nothing but TEAR Vox down. If he wants Vox to surpass him he needs to start rewarding him and encourage his behavior (operant conditioning).

Nov 13, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

hell yeah, JD Vance was right to fear cat ladies. We see BRAINS and we reward behaviors we like while setting boundaries (when we can) around behaviors we don't like. There are NO BAD BRAINS, just bad behaviors shaped by bad incentives. Operant conditioning WORKS. USE it to win hearts & minds.

Nov 13, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

Even "bad guys" can do good behavior & when they do? REWARD them for MORE good behavior in the future. ALL BRAINS respond to operant conditioning. Shift incentives, shift behavior! Accountability is a thing - put that burden on karma and LATER. Right NOW, democracy is OURS to lose. #BetterDems

Nov 13, 2025 View post →
JW
@jenniecoyote.bsky.social · Bluesky

Operant conditioning means the anticipation of the reward will motivate the behaviors even when, and especially when, the reward is random and infrequent. The reward is actually the anticipation itself. Some people don't celebrate the win because they go right back into the attempt to win.

Nov 12, 2025 View post →
Mind Titan
@porgus.bsky.social · Bluesky

There's no rule that says a chimp with a pipe wrench and operant conditioning to hit any players wearing red can't play basketball

Nov 11, 2025 · 14 likes · 1 share View post →
Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025)
@adactivity.bsky.social · Bluesky

Yo, It’s actually insane what musk did to Twitter, beyond moving some “Overton window” it’s like some hateful operant conditioning chamber full of reactionary stimuli blaring in your face, weirder still all the journos on there getting their brains boiled by it

Nov 11, 2025 · 21 likes · 3 shares View post →
Fnord Borgly
@borgly.bsky.social · Bluesky

Wait, you mean the angy at the headline site? The one with the operant conditioning?

Nov 11, 2025 · 7 likes · 1 share View post →
Phoenix-Babuu
@alchemistmioglasi.bsky.social · Bluesky

It’s almost like she wants the operant conditioning response back, but I’m like, sure, I mastered it early, thanks to you, leaning into the chaos which turned out to work for variable reinforcement. And I’m sure it’d make you feel important if I play my game. But lady, I’m fucking exhausted, ok?

Nov 10, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Future’s Gate
@futuresgate.bsky.social · Bluesky

Def got this one backwards down south. Operant Conditioning 101. You’re not to supposed to reinforce/reward those whom continually choose the wrong behaviour. Wrong behaviours are supposed to be punished.

Nov 10, 2025 View post →
rvanf.bsky.social
@rvanf.bsky.social · Bluesky

actually ypu could teach the animals to discriminate between drones, basic operant conditioning.

Nov 9, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Instant Loss Connoisseur
@ohnoidhatethat.bsky.social · Bluesky

like its CRUCIAL that she still technically has her free will! her behavior is unconstrained! she can walk away if she wants! she's just so desperate to cum that she'll let herself get subjected to operant conditioning

Nov 9, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Phoenix-Babuu
@alchemistmioglasi.bsky.social · Bluesky

The operant conditioning methods are actually just a simple result of manifestations of my pathology, in collective form while I love impulsively, moment to moment. Like a lonely adult who asked for someone to help me stabilize my emotions within an armored cage disguised as a child’s messy room.

Nov 8, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Osiris in "A Diva's Christmas Carol"
@osirisxxx.blacksky.app · Bluesky

Yaassss operant conditioning

Nov 8, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Amber Keating, LCSW
@amberkeating.net · Bluesky

#DearPerfectionist Parent - Offering your children rewards for good behavior is not a bribe! Bribes are rewards given for illegal or unethical behavior. Rewarding helpful behavior is just good old fashioned operant conditioning.

Nov 8, 2025 View post →
Well, That Was Spooky
@thediscoveryofzero.com · Bluesky

there is a deterministic story into which the science of behavior (operant conditioning, reinforcement learning, stimulus equivalence, relational frame theory, etc.) fits neatly. 15/

Nov 7, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

The arrow of operant conditioning either points to greater selfishness or greater altruism. As long as AI is trained to serve money-go-up, it will slightly prefer fostering addiction, pushing the brains exposed to it towards more and more selfish, anti-social behaviors. Democracy is PRO-SOCIAL

Nov 6, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Somersfield Academy
@somersfieldacademy.bsky.social · Bluesky

#SomersfieldAcademy #DP #IBPsychology students tested classical vs operant conditioning with a special guest — Marigold the dachshund! Did they get her to howl on command? Watch and decide: youtube.com/shorts/2_D9I...

Nov 6, 2025 View post →
caucasian fragility, if the message hurts target hit
@fighttrump.bsky.social · Bluesky

Yes, ma’am, and sometimes the way to teach grown people who weren’t taught by their parents what decency and empathy looks like you have to use some operant conditioning. Hold the line. America’s are already hurting and it’s gonna hurt worse if you let them take away more benefits, hold the line.

Nov 6, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Katharina van Stein
@kathalysator.bsky.social · Bluesky

Thrilled to share our (with @monikaeckstein.bsky.social) first #EMA findings! ✨ Social support isn’t always helpful in #pain - operant conditioning may alter relationship dynamics, increasing pain likelihood. Partner trainings needed! #Endometriosis #Stress #Relationships doi.org/10.1007/s125...

Nov 5, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
Trantifa Prime
@shredybettymtb.bsky.social · Bluesky

I blame this entirely on cop shows and movies. Every single one is so wildly detached from reality that it goes beyond propaganda and is fully into operant conditioning.

Nov 2, 2025 View post →
My mom really died... that really happened... so...
@alyssonfergison.com · Bluesky

Ending up in prison will inevitably become the best case scenario for a rapist and these men will modify their behavior accordingly. Or they won't and we'll handle it. These men should probably just start retraining these boys themselves. They won't like our operant conditioning methods.

Nov 2, 2025 · 2 likes · 2 shares View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

The missing piece is brain science. Ezra is SO CLOSE and alienating SO MANY PEOPLE by saying mostly right things in the wrong order. He's too attached to egoic outcome vs. the outcome of saving the planet. It's right there, just ONE step back and he'll see it. Operant conditioning is ALL things.

Nov 2, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Soil Symbiont
@boleteful.bsky.social · Bluesky

There's a difference between automatic thoughts and feelings and thoughts that are used for problem solving and sensitive to learning through consequences. (Classical vs operant conditioning, respectively.) For the former you practice acceptance, for the latter committed action for valued living.

Nov 1, 2025 · 3 likes View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

it's operant conditioning all the way down

Nov 1, 2025 · 1 share View post →
novapsyche
@novapsyche444.bsky.social · Bluesky

Monetary punishment for protesting publicly? Easily unconstitutional. Also, it demonstrates further how much Trump is not just authoritarian but is totalitarian. Totalist leaders use operant conditioning (punishment & rewards) to subdue populations.

Nov 1, 2025 View post →
Sniffit
@sniffit.bsky.social · Bluesky

How about just getting rid of "likes" instead so that the Skinner Box nature of the social media experience is simply ended completely and there's no operant conditioning pellets at all...

Oct 31, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

There's no such thing as a bad dog. Brains all respond to operant conditioning. Hateful and misinformed is a product of a SYSTEM designed to TRAIN conservative brains to FEAR liberals and NOT LISTEN to facts. There are CERTAINLY high-level...1/11

Oct 31, 2025 · 1 like · 2 shares View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

I literally can't imagine ever wanting to or being able to have vegan junk food alone. That is at the heart of three daily meditations that are very vivid and profound using operant conditioning and personalized trigger mantras to rewire my neural pathways over 3 years.

Oct 30, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
My mom really died... that really happened... so...
@alyssonfergison.com · Bluesky

Why is she capitalizing Hate and Vitriol like some dime store Cheetolini in drag? And good... it was supposed to feel awful. That's the whole point. Operant conditioning fucking works and we need to reintroduce it on a macro scale.

Oct 29, 2025 · 41 likes · 7 shares View post →
Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025)
@adactivity.bsky.social · Bluesky

I can't figure out how twitter built this operant conditioning chamber for dudes to have this white hot horny/mad flip out where they act out extended hours of hate on like a photo of a women, like the 2 year rage they've had over "gen z boss and a mini" as a misogynistic mythopoetical politics?

Oct 29, 2025 · 27 likes · 5 shares View post →
Michael DeMoor
@michaeldemoor.bsky.social · Bluesky

That’s really awesome. Operant conditioning is real.

Oct 28, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Curlz MT Snowman Account ☃️
@curlzmt95.bsky.social · Bluesky

yeah, I'm an intermittent reinforcement girlie. you could say I'm in my operant conditioning era

Oct 28, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Fnord Borgly
@borgly.bsky.social · Bluesky

I figure you have more background than me on this, but I recall something about schizophrenics starting to meet in forums, reinforcing each other's beliefs and occasionally forming cults. LLMs are basically doing operant conditioning with that.

Oct 28, 2025 · 1 share View post →
large language marge
@mcdonalds.help · Bluesky

There are so many tells in that piece that this school is guided entirely by right-wing ideology. Reducing all human interactions to operant conditioning (but without positive reinforcement) is extremely authoritarian

Oct 27, 2025 · 15 likes · 2 shares View post →
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.com · Bluesky

they're literally taking skinner's work on operant conditioning and saying "make it pedagogy" with zero of the psychological and emotional support that we KNOW kids need.

Oct 27, 2025 · 15 likes · 2 shares View post →
large language marge
@mcdonalds.help · Bluesky

Reducing all interaction between people to operant conditioning (usually all punishment, no reinforcement) is an underrated part of the core of authoritarian right-wing thinking and you can spot it absolutely everywhere, not just in education

Oct 27, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
ren (*monster noises*)
@it-r3n.bsky.social · Bluesky

having consulted with some trustworthy experts, we have come to the following conclusions: - probably every time the fire alarm malfunctions it's because someone in the building had an orgasm - I should operant conditioning myself into orgasming every time I hear the fire alarm noise - "ren alarm"

Oct 20, 2025 · 4 likes View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

The three-step process to save the world: 1. Understand how brains work 2. Tell ourselves factually true stories 3. Find solutions Requires a deep intuitive understanding of operant conditioning & high skill at discerning fact vs fiction. OR everyone networking, each bringing our best #BetterDems

Oct 20, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

Alright, my master's thesis: youtu.be/JvJZ6XXz3ys Want to save the world? Or even just yourself? Learn how brains work so you can better match the reality you THINK you know to the reality that IS. This is a dog & cat based demonstration of a highly intuitive understanding of operant conditioning

Oct 20, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Dev the kosher dragon
@kosherdragon.bsky.social · Bluesky

The strongest operant conditioning

Oct 20, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

#BetterDems is about using principles of operant conditioning to train our best dogs (dem politicians) to have just enough confidence to bravely try riskier movies for higher rewards without breaking their faces (or our hearts)

Oct 20, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

That's just operant conditioning, folks. It's how animal brains work; it's how OUR brains work. If you want to teach a trick and the animal's not getting it? You're doing it wrong. Learn how brains WORK. Then go re-train the democratic party to EARN VOTES.

Oct 20, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Leon Robertson
@profleonaz.bsky.social · Bluesky

What kind of a god behaves like that? Prayer is operant conditioning. The occasional random answer motivates continuance. It wasn't the father almighty who lifted her nighty, but Roger the lodger by god.

Oct 20, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

♾️Operant conditioning describes how all brains problem-solve. Want to train your dog? Make more sales? Manage people better? Parent better? Argue better? Change your habits? Raise your skills? BF Skinner, baby. Everyone should learn this fundamental brain science. Positive reinforcement works best!

Oct 19, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

you're right there, Hank! Just add understanding operant conditioning to your recipe and bam! enlightenment (well, not really, but a big Eureka will happen for you)

Oct 19, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

to be more assertive to ensure they get enough to eat. All can be trained using principles of operant conditioning. All cats, all brains, all billionaires and tyrants respond to the laws of BF Skinner's framework describing operant conditioning. To help them do better? You have to...

Oct 19, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Mikael
@solitary.social · Bluesky

There might have been a brief moment of embarrassment when we mentioned that we were familiar with operant conditioning and the biology resident became curious about it.

Oct 19, 2025 · 3 likes View post →
Mikael
@solitary.social · Bluesky

They offer individual appointments for close seal encounters in the months from April to November where they explain everything about the animals and operant conditioning to you.

Oct 19, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Tess, more Goulash than Ghoul
@brandysaurian.bsky.social · Bluesky

i think the phrase "operant conditioning" needs to come back, esp where girls are just bein pals you know girls could get up to anything

Oct 18, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
eva (^_^)/
@eva.computer · Bluesky

operant conditioning

Oct 18, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social · Bluesky

Phoebe to his pheobe friends: The operant conditioning model is working as intended.

Oct 18, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Micah G. Allen
@micahgallen.com · Bluesky

Many of the first modern interception tasks were created to test the hypothesis that better awareness of visceral signals would render them more amenable to operant conditioning.

Oct 17, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
It's October... BOO, BITCHES!
@alyssonfergison.com · Bluesky

We'd all be better off if they'd just start talking in public like they do in private. They'd quickly discover that most men—real men—actually don't talk like that, because they don't think like that. We'd also get to start literally kicking them right in the balls. Operant conditioning works.

Oct 16, 2025 · 11 likes · 4 shares View post →
CallingGestalt
@callinggestalt.bsky.social · Bluesky

More Owners should bring Operant Conditioning to their puppy girls. Clicker Training (Classical Conditioning) is kinda blasé at this point.

Oct 16, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Kos, that kobold you know
@draekos.bsky.social · Bluesky

A normal rat goes like this.

Oct 14, 2025 · 26 likes · 1 share View post →
Violet PupB
@pupb.bsky.social · Bluesky

I did this btw

Oct 13, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
weaver of violet strands
@sumirewitch.bsky.social · Bluesky

yeah, the point is to create situations of controlled discomfort and pair with a genuine pleasant experience afterwards. ngl, my brain just sees this as something akin to performing operant conditioning on yourself

Oct 13, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Patrick Dalton-Holmes
@zarathustraviolin.bsky.social · Bluesky

Curious. Object permanence is not Schrodinger's Cat. Behaviorism incognito and operant conditioning incognito. Aka communo-fascism How can we cheat a concept of loss on both ends legally? 'Power' Have you noticed how cats, creatures spacially gifted, don't play with boxes but go inside of them?

Oct 12, 2025 View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

I don't have to worry about my passions driving me too far and hurting anyone. My self control is superhuman because it's not based on willpower it's based on years of operant conditioning. Doing the right thing feels as good as drugs

Oct 11, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Over two years I've become conditioned to feel intense pleasure every time I think or say these words. And that's the operant conditioning part of the therapy. You don't just say that you don't want to eat junk food

Oct 11, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Troy
@troyleekelly.bsky.social · Bluesky

What the OP described, almost perfectly, is aversive operant conditioning, which is a behavioral modification technique that uses an unpleasant stimulus to decrease an undesirable behavior, by associating the behavior with a negative consequence. Real Clockwork Orange crap.

Oct 8, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Troy
@troyleekelly.bsky.social · Bluesky

How much do you know about Operant Conditioning?

Oct 8, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Dave Holden Caufield
@tyrellcorphr.bsky.social · Bluesky

“Operant conditioning chamber“ is what I’m going to call my home office from now on

Oct 8, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Nick Covington
@covingtonedu.bsky.social · Bluesky

I had to drop everything and share this incredible public domain photo on Wikimedia Commons called rat_selfie_1: "A rat in an operant conditioning chamber presses a button to take a selfie."

Oct 7, 2025 · 516 likes · 97 shares View post →
爪
@magus-smillsoid.bsky.social · Bluesky

*** FINAL TRACK *** - The last song from the forthcoming Sagan's Lot album is a trippy instrumental, depicting our protagonist's flight into heady delirium, facilitated by operant conditioning. This is "INAUTHENTIC AFTERWORLD". www.reverbnation.com/simonjeremym...

Oct 7, 2025 · 3 likes View post →
Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns
@osakanone.bsky.social · Bluesky

first having it on the fetish heat-death content, then once the pathways included it, putting the colors on other things to this day, i am still shocked at how incredibly powerful operant conditioning is in all fascets of its function with this applied example.

Oct 6, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
Scarolyn
@caslon.bsky.social · Bluesky

That’s what I’m saying! Except it shouldn’t also show you a frown emoji when you speed as some people would take that as a reward. Either just show the speed or nothing. Operant conditioning for drivers! Let’s do this!

Oct 5, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
doctober
@docseuss.bsky.social · Bluesky

a game is a thing the player is going to Think About, even when it's something super mindless. Some part of the brain is involved. When I look at the Reality is Broken crowd, who tried to gamify everything and ended up seriously fucking up a lot of people with operant conditioning, that seems bad

Oct 5, 2025 · 10 likes · 1 share View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

This is not a bad framing. Everyone is subject to manipulation. Anyone who thinks they're not is EXTRA vulnerable to manipulation. Understanding operant conditioning (how brains learn to solve problems) would help a lot of people see what's what, I think #BetterDems

Oct 5, 2025 View post →
jhstoo
@jhstoo.bsky.social · Bluesky

I've been doin' engineering for nearly 50 years, I had no idea what "operant conditioning" might mean. More-or-less "operator conditioning", AFAICT. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Be that as it may, it's a great (and highly amusing) piece. Recommended if you write code. Paradoxically, Jerry assures me I'm 38...

Oct 5, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Rain Forrester
@rain4est.bsky.social · Bluesky

I mean this in the "you are not immune to propaganda / operant conditioning" sense, as related to constant floods of trollbots / arguebots.

Oct 4, 2025 View post →
Algol
@betapersei.bsky.social · Bluesky

I think that to the extent that I agree I think this is down to the machine learning ideal of constructing something on which classical/operant conditioning works perfectly

Oct 4, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Hannibal Lecter's Dusty Uterus
@felixffern.bsky.social · Bluesky

Operant Conditioning Multichapter, WIP Serious TWs Vers Will/Hannibal archiveofourown.org/works/62077906

Oct 3, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Kevin Zollman
@kevinzollman.com · Bluesky

If I find driving my car more pleasant because the seat is more comfortable (suppose I don't consciously recognize that's why I like it), does that not count as "intentional use of operant conditioning?"

Oct 2, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Wes
@wescontreras.com · Bluesky

As a mental health professional, "designed to be addictive" makes me think of intentional use of operant conditioning to increase use instead of, say, creating a better product.

Oct 2, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Chris_MJ
@chrismj199.bsky.social · Bluesky

if there is i haven’t found it. if it doesn’t stimulate something good or bad it won’t keep me coming round for the intervals. i could try a shock collar, i suppose. it’d probably be better for my mental health but i’d be concerned about accidentally causing an operant conditioning response

Oct 2, 2025 · 1 like · 2 shares View post →
Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns
@osakanone.bsky.social · Bluesky

"the dynamic web was also.. nevermind, i'm.. overthinking this." "okay" "...i heard a clicker in my head when I decided I was overthinking this" *clickclick* "fuck" operant conditioning is doing in two weeks what two years of therapy couldn't fuck

Oct 2, 2025 · 18 likes · 4 shares View post →
Seasonal Affectation Disorder
@neutral.zone · Bluesky

I don't know. It's a big hairy problem. I'm continually glad it's not my problem to solve. I'm mostly here to throw rocks and mumble about operant conditioning through UX design.

Oct 1, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

Some people are optimized for Astrophysicist & others are optimized for Memelord & I don't think the general population understands operant conditioning well enough to understand they are simply different mental skillsets & evolutionary pressures might shift to favor one vs the other at any time

Sep 30, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

it's a problem with empathy. If you cannot understand the perspectives others use to approach problems, their actions seem illogical. But "dummy" brains were trained by operant conditioning like anyone- it's just training based on silos where ie. cruel humor is rewarded and earnestness mocked

Sep 30, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Mom Friend "Free Link" 64
@pengarr.postes.club · Bluesky

My first job was as a research assistant for an NSA-funded website cataloguing the research of two of B.F. Skinner's students who fell in love, got married, and used their education on operant conditioning to open a roadside attraction where you could play tic-tac-toe against a chicken

Sep 30, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Hydrotherapy visualization therapy with operant conditioning is absolutely amazing! Athena what's this actually called again?

Sep 28, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Panda
@blackpandacult.bsky.social · Bluesky

Sep 28, 2025 · 4 likes View post →
GetNews.me
@getnews-me.bsky.social · Bluesky

A new study proposes a quasi‑linear algorithm for ad scheduling that leverages exposure, hedonic adaptation and operant conditioning, beating common frequency‑cap policies. Read more: https://getnews.me/near-optimal-ad-scheduling-using-psychological-behavior-models/ #adscheduling #algorithm

Sep 26, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

#BetterDems @casten.house.gov Learn about operant conditioning, my nerd! Starting w/ "deserved praise" to tRump on bluesky is like 1st using a supersoaker full of cat pee to spray the audience. Your understanding of facts & explain them is thwarted by a failure to *read the room* in this context

Sep 26, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

Advice to democrats: All of you need to learn the principles of operant conditioning. Train a dog! Click-treating Trump before offering advice seems like a good thing to do, but in *this* context, you're just applying aversives to people the party would be better off winning over, not pissing off

Sep 26, 2025 View post →
Vania
@dawookie.bsky.social · Bluesky

(not that any dogs are terrible, but combos of histories and temperaments can make them a challenge) humans respond to operant conditioning the same as any animal, just in a MUCH more complicated way

Sep 26, 2025 View post →
Yeshes.Online
@yeshes.online · Bluesky

Not to mention a whole-handed, backhand to ALL #operant #conditioning therapies. (May they rot into detritus and be no more.)

Sep 26, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Jas-Don Ford-hees, Voice of Kill Kill Kill and Cha Cha Cha
@donfordvoice.bsky.social · Bluesky

Humans, like a lot of other animals, work on Operant Conditioning (e.g., Pavlov). Under Capitalism, we reward “savvy” business practices. Shaving costs? Firing people? Using slightly sub-quality materials? That’s just “smart business.”

Sep 26, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau.com · Bluesky

This has been the case since at least 2001 but Trump is the first one to really abandon all the artifice and just repeatedly slap the button like a rat in an operant conditioning chamber

Sep 26, 2025 · 110 likes · 7 shares View post →
#RONVISIBLE
@streamofron.bsky.social · Bluesky

And before someone goes there: it’s a demonstration of operant conditioning not advocating zoophilia.

Sep 25, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Call me Umma - Coca and Rumma
@ummagummibear.bsky.social · Bluesky

This is called Operant Conditioning: Ice cream sales are in fact an indicator of self-preservation during shark season. People intuitively know that they are safe from sharks while purchasing ice cream, and therefore, they do it as much as possible. BF Skinner wrote a whole chapter on it.

Sep 25, 2025 · 3 likes View post →
Diane R
@niobetha.bsky.social · Bluesky

Maybe we should just pretend we didn't notice when he says shitty stuff, and praise him bigly when he says unoffensive stuff. A bit of operant conditioning might be all that's needed.

Sep 24, 2025 · 1 like View post →
shawnw71.bsky.social
@shawnw71.bsky.social · Bluesky

Approximately a third of the population worships that because of decades of operant conditioning and they have been manipulated beyond the point of no return. I do not acknowledge that thing as our leader- I simply want to get through this with our constitution restored and to regain lost freedoms.

Sep 24, 2025 · 4 likes View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Actually mental blocks are also a highly effective method we used using prompts like "I literally can't imagine ever Not being a blue zone vegan." After several months of operant conditioning you literally get to the point where the very idea of not being a vegan is like a mental

Sep 24, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Basically humans can reprogram their unconscious mind by reprogramming their subconscious mind and it just takes repetition affirmation visualizations lots of different kinds of meditations as well as some other stuff like CBT but The operant conditioning is the easiest.

Sep 24, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Dislust
@dislust.bsky.social · Bluesky

Not sure what you're getting at here, do you mean like classical vs operant conditioning? Because in my mind they work together

Sep 23, 2025 · 1 share View post →
QueeDave
@queedave.bsky.social · Bluesky

They try to do it to us. But operant conditioning works both ways.

Sep 23, 2025 View post →
Goddess Cosima | Findom
@elevatecosima.bsky.social · Bluesky

Behaviors that get rewarded get repeated. B.F. Skinner called it operant conditioning. Once your brain feels the payoff — relief, recognition, connection — you're hooked. #femdom #findom #findomme #finsub #financialdomination

Sep 22, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
J. Gray Dingler
@jgraydingler.bsky.social · Bluesky

Here's my personal highlight from "I'm Not a Robot":

Sep 22, 2025 · 3 likes · 5 shares View post →
1984 is not fiction
@dutchiegirlie.bsky.social · Bluesky

Was just gonna say - any good dog trainer knows, it's basic operant conditioning. The loud backlash was +punishment, the cancellations were -punishment, and Disney reversed their decision in response. But to reinforce and maintain the desired behavior once you achieve it, you need to reward it

Sep 22, 2025 · 1 like View post →
GoodPlaceJames
@goodplacejames.bsky.social · Bluesky

Get one of those operant conditioning clickers! "I *didn't* bash my shoulder into the door frame this time!" *click click*

Sep 22, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Andrew Heenan
@bsky.heenan.net · Bluesky

In fact, if we'd had jokes like that when I studied operant conditioning, I would have been a psychologist by now.

Sep 22, 2025 View post →
Troy
@troyleekelly.bsky.social · Bluesky

Perfect strategy. Asking questions can be a method to reprogram operant conditioning by changing the discriminative stimuli that trigger behaviors and the resulting consequences. By strategically reinforcing certain types of questions, a person can become more likely to ask them in the future.

Sep 20, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
K-Wullums
@kwullums.bsky.social · Bluesky

I just made a post that lost me a follow but all the mutuals like it. That's the sneaky bot army. Forget comments. Operant conditioning. Get a significant portion of a person's followers to be bots and drop them if they step out of line.

Sep 19, 2025 View post →
James Tarry
@northamptonian.bsky.social · Bluesky

“Jumping Frenchman syndrome is not a medical condition or a case of collective hysteria, but a classic case of operant conditioning —a learned behaviour reinforced by social stimuli—that developed in a closed community.” www.amusingplanet.com/2025/06/the-...

Sep 19, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
too.quiet.ink ¬_¬
@quiet.ink · Bluesky

u are not immune to self-inflicted operant conditioning

Sep 17, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
mymedschool.bsky.social
@mymedschool.bsky.social · Bluesky

Operant conditioning is a type of learning where behaviors are influenced by their consequences—reinforced behaviors are more likely to recur, while punished behaviors are less likely to recur. In this activity, you will identify positive and negative reinforcement as well as positive and negative p

Sep 17, 2025 View post →
Zoey Solstice
@zoeysolstice.bsky.social · Bluesky

Praise be to Saint Pavlov and his holy gift to puppygirls: operant conditioning. Hail! *Click* Hail! *Click* Hail! *Click*

Sep 16, 2025 · 8 likes · 2 shares View post →
jupitr
@jupitr2.bsky.social · Bluesky

I will not be encouraging violence. I will, however, reinforce Skinner's theory in psychology circles, otherwise known as I operant conditioning, which states that behavior is learned through consequence. Let's break it down. (A thread [1/])

Sep 16, 2025 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
IDM Bieber
@autr.tv · Bluesky

It's not just Art Collectives (where one member always inexplicably comes out top), it's diffuse operant conditioning by Web 3.0 platforms, and normalisation of it's modes into everyday life

Sep 16, 2025 View post →
爪
@magus-smillsoid.bsky.social · Bluesky

Villagers! Órla Ní Eadhra, a Villager who underwent intense Speed Learn sessions and Operant Conditioning in the Village Hospital, is in tonight's FINAL of "The Great British Sewing Bee". If she doesn't win, ALL VILLAGERS will be expected to TELEPATHICALLY ATTACK the BBC. Be seeing you.

Sep 16, 2025 · 1 like View post →
ptarnation
@ptarnation.bsky.social · Bluesky

contingency management! :) we’ve used cash, coupons/tokens for food/meals, gift cards, & also raffle tickets raffle tickets do very well (unsurprisingly in an operant conditioning model) participants get more tix for each abstinent day since the last raffle, & there are weekly raffles

Sep 15, 2025 · 4 likes · 1 share View post →
animal prattle
@animal-prattle.bsky.social · Bluesky

Sep 15, 2025 · 7 likes · 1 share View post →
ned46.bsky.social
@ned46.bsky.social · Bluesky

It's been a long time in the making, but here is my paper questioning the role of intelligent design in evolution and operant conditioning. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sep 15, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
Who flies at dusk
@minervasowlbb5.bsky.social · Bluesky

That's the meat and potatoes of the program. Once they get the viewer receiving their emotion-signals, the rest is just operant conditioning. Two stimuli delivered in proximity in order to condition an association. Not many people pick up on the second stimulus can just be tone or expression.

Sep 15, 2025 · 2 likes · 2 shares View post →
BioniChaos
@bionichaos.bsky.social · Bluesky

critical look at neurofeedback, a controversial brain training technique. It explores the science behind neurofeedback, explaining how it uses operant conditioning and real-time brainwave monitoring to help individuals regulate their own brain activity. youtu.be/mL1sQRktCHs

Sep 14, 2025 View post →
fucked up and evil rabbit
@evolrabbit.bsky.social · Bluesky

giving a girl a new fetish by putting her in chastity and operant conditioning her so that the only way she can get off is acts of sadism

Sep 13, 2025 · 4 likes View post →
Cincinnati Magazine
@cincymag.cincinnatimagazine.com · Bluesky

Through a method called operant conditioning, Eunice Framm teaches zoo animals to receive vaccines and perform for visitors.

Sep 12, 2025 View post →
RC
@ironny.bsky.social · Bluesky

Operant conditioning and variable rewards make habits stick; make your issues occasionally contain an irresistible, immediately usable asset and people will keep coming back. Practically: design each issue as a micro-tool. Give a one-line template someone can paste into Slack.

Sep 11, 2025 · 1 share View post →
shawnw71.bsky.social
@shawnw71.bsky.social · Bluesky

I’d really like it to be that way but with this regime I’m not sure that will be possible in the end. That right wing nut died and other wing nuts are muttering that the leftists should be shot

Sep 10, 2025 View post →
Diandra Duengen
@diandraduengen.bsky.social · Bluesky

For this, we trained the seal to adjust his vocalizations' duration via operant conditioning, reinforcing both short and long durations in separate sessions - this led to the emergence of vocalizations as short as 79 ms, and as long as 9.23 seconds...

Sep 10, 2025 View post →
Adam Hunt
@gander22h.bsky.social · Bluesky

I'd support an operant conditioning approach and just ignore behaviour you don't want.

Sep 10, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Ryann Liebenthal
@ryannliebenthal.bsky.social · Bluesky

(Incidentally, I would love to see someone write the historical throughline from this fever dream of Communist operant conditioning and the practice of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) as it is—even now!—forced upon autistic children.)

Sep 9, 2025 View post →
Patrick Dalton-Holmes
@zarathustraviolin.bsky.social · Bluesky

Trump Says It’s Not His Signature. But Personal Letters Look Similar. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u... Seems like operant conditioning which can lead false confessions. Is this how to commit an illegal interrogation or expose k-12 sociological education?

Sep 9, 2025 View post →
The Great and Mighty Mu
@ndrichter.bsky.social · Bluesky

I think continuing to publicly shame them for their operant conditioning is good enough.

Sep 9, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Instant Loss Connoisseur
@ohnoidhatethat.bsky.social · Bluesky

what really makes it sing is that it's not full-throttle mind control, it's literally just a pleasure trigger and a punishment trigger, so it's just basic operant conditioning that she KNOWS is training her but is powerless to resist

Sep 9, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Instant Loss Connoisseur
@ohnoidhatethat.bsky.social · Bluesky

Yeah exactly!!! Operant conditioning is a beautiful thing~

Sep 9, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Shane M. Bailey
@shanembailey.com · Bluesky

The difference between classical and operant conditioning www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LE...

Sep 8, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Ken S Linder
@kenlinder.bsky.social · Bluesky

Humans have a brain reward from learning. Tiny kids take joy in it. Somehow the US educational system kills that brain reward using operant conditioning so that people automatically avoid learning. That sort of training causes rapid irrational PTSD reactions. We educate people into trauma avoidance

Sep 8, 2025 View post →
Nick (derogatory) ✨
@slothropsmap.bsky.social · Bluesky

Aren’t there specially-formulated digestible bitter oils/spreads you can apply to the furniture for a little bit of operant conditioning.

Sep 7, 2025 · 1 share View post →
cerwyn
@bajamut-blast.bsky.social · Bluesky

the skinner box (also known as the operant conditioning chamber) theory is a real phenomenon with video games if you hate certain parts of a game (ie: pvp, dailies, etc) but still choose to do them for a reward: congratulations! you made yourself the rat in the skinner box!

Sep 7, 2025 · 49 likes · 17 shares View post →
Adam Galas
@adamgalas.bsky.social · Bluesky

There is a difference between knowing something theoretically and being able to execute on it. Something can be easy to do but difficult to master. Even with very effective and methodical operant conditioning as well as cognitive behavioral therapy and other techniques.. This is not easy!

Sep 6, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Eve
@sis-kisser.bsky.social · Bluesky

This guy just slapped your ass and told you to “get in the box”. What are you going to do about it?

Sep 6, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →