Stalking is the ongoing pursuit of a specific person without their consent. Examples of stalking behavior include following someone, waiting outside their house, and spying on their activities.

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...

What Is Passive-Aggressive Behavior? Passive-aggressive behavior is when you express negative feelings indirectly instead of openly talking about them. During World War II, when soldiers wouldn't ...

Maladaptive behaviors are those that stop you from adapting to new or difficult circumstances. They can start after a major life change, illness, or traumatic event. It could also be a habit you ...

Body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) is when a person compulsively engages in body-focused habits, such as skin picking, cheek chewing, hair pulling, and similar. It is difficult for people to stop ...

The failure of so many polls to predict the outcomes and margins of the last two presidential elections underscores the maddening challenge faced by social scientists who try to predict actual ...

If your child is struggling with certain behaviors or responsibilities, help may be as simple as creating a sticker chart. Parents, particularly those of young children, have used behavior charts to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Louise Gentle works for Nottingham Trent University. Biologging is the practice of attaching devices to animals so that scientific data can be collected. For decades, basic biologgers have been used ...