The term ‘negative punishment’ might not be properly intelligible to everyone, for the word ‘punishment’ has an inherently negative ring to it. However, it is not so. The word punishment refers to an ...

The term punishment is used by behaviourial scientists to describe the actions, which decrease the chances of a specific behaviour being repeated. What is negative punishment? Negative punishment is ...

Crime and punishment have been much talked about recently. First, President Halimah Yacob, in rare intervention, suggested that the law exempting men over 50 years old from caning should be reviewed.

One of psychology’s few unquestioned verities is behaviorism: You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish. And some nuances can make behaviorism, often called behavior modification, ...