#Reinforcer
Bloopers.
And why we always wear a helmet even at liberty!
(Romy thought I was delivering his reinforcer and closed his mouth on the target handle-horses can’t see right in front of their nose-he pulled back in surprise, I still had the target which made it suddenly rise up toward his eye.)
September 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Controlling how & where people can spend their benefit payments is an old early 80s reinforcer of our feckless claimants. It removes personal agency & shops tend to have hidden expensive workarounds shuffling sales & ripping off the person already struggling to get by.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes
The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2026 at 8:23 AM
This is an interesting question! The way I understand it, our brains do model-based rather than model-free RL, so reward (or other reinforcer) values get placed onto a pre-existing cognitive 'map' or representational scheme. The sensorimotor representations constitute that representational scheme
September 23, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Preference assessments help RBT®s learn what a client enjoys and what may work as a meaningful reinforcer. 💡

From free-operant to paired-stimulus and multiple-stimulus assessments, each method gives us a different way to understand client preferences.
September 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
He may get pressure to restore access to all journalists because of the optics (which is a big driver)….especially going into midterms and wanting to TRY to get more R votes.

I’m thinking you don’t reward abusive behavior- attention is a huge reinforcer. Remove it (it’ll be given back).
September 19, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Data from Marsh et al. suggest that reinforcer availability and consumption may shape cocaine choice more strongly than temporal patterns of drug intake #TWiNPP
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intermittent and extended cocaine access attenuate cocaine-vs-food choice in male and female rats - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Intermittent and extended cocaine access attenuate cocaine-vs-food choice in male and female rats
www.nature.com
September 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
(also, there are no One Weird Tricks in language—the relationship is the context that makes it go. Labeled praise from a boss you hate probably won't function as a reinforcer or a rule statement worth tracking)
September 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
In a case series of N=28 autistics (aged 4-19) in an intensive ABA program, N=11 were subject to response blocking (an ABA punishment procedure), N=10 were subject to RIRD (an ABA punishment procedure), N=7 were subject to unspecified forms of punishment link.springer.com/article/10.1... ABA in 2026
Descriptive Analyses of Treatment for Automatically Maintained Behavior - Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities
Extinction may be difficult to implement when targeting automatically maintained behavior because the putative maintaining reinforcer cannot be directly observed. The exact behavioral mechanism of pro...
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September 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
so when discussing media, particularly dark and shocking media, you should be honest and recognise the reality that all media acts as a reinforcer of ideas we already have

you don't listen to emo music because you're happy, you listen to it because you're sad. and that can be a vector for self-harm
August 27, 2026 at 9:20 PM
17 Roles in Media Lynchings: Which One Is Yours? A) The Aggressors: Initiator · Producer · Reinforcer · Amplifier · Legitimizer · Facilitator · Isolator · Escalator · Marginalizer · Bystander B) The Brave: Sympathizer · Supporter · Upstander · Resolver daily27.info/2026/08/24/1...
August 24, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I agree. The American people have "standing," as it were, to be concerned about someone who is beside the US president all day, every day. Her boundless approval and praise make her a powerful reinforcer of his delusions, and that SHOULD concern us all.
August 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Ilja Dragunov VS Dragon Dragon in Dragongate with Dragon Kid as referee and Ultimo Dragon as special reinforcer
August 20, 2026 at 9:59 PM
oobi…………….
and then there’s another reinforcer of jm taking off his shirt for his turn. ANOTHER TREAT! plus, jm’s foresight and knowledge of where the splash zone will be…..,,,,
August 19, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I wish copyrights, proprietary, patents and such are banned. It keeps greed creating shitty products and disallow competitors to make a better product with modifications to them. This is all meticulously designed to control people. As money is the number one reinforcer of the whole system.
August 17, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Gah, ceiling reinforcer is much better
Tzolis may not be the big ceiling raiser that Vinicious Jr. would have been but on the strength of this looks like he might be a level maintainer.
August 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM
And they BETTER be delivered as close to the secondary reinforcer as possible (within 1 second) or you're gonna get some fuckass response time next time you want waggies... damn, they need to take a course in learning theory
August 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
new art from me!! features my genderless (ze/hir), toony and monobutt liger Eric Doobie working hir shift as a telephone pole reinforcer / repairer ;03

toyhou.se/39517794.eri...
August 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
now that i myself am allowed back into the waking world however,,,

i do get to draw a beastie big and round today at least. gonna be drawing my genduhless monobutt and toony liger character Eric Doobie working hir shift as a telephone repairperson / reinforcer,,

gimme a bit tho since just woke up!
August 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Pumpkin Spice Negative Reinforcer
August 12, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I hope you find it helpful!

Having some regular stretching or movement can do WONDERS!

And a pretty strong reinforcer it sounds like too if you keep up with it 😄
August 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Whorephobia has, at some stage in the proceedings, been used to launder nearly every single conservative panic of the past century. Even when not actively invoked, it exists as a constant subliminal reinforcer that the government can, conditionally, have the right to police women's bodies
August 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
A lot of the bigger Terfs spat that line out alongside the bitter trope of kids being transed. A deliberately false perception reinforcer that there is any choice bar staying silent about who you know yourself to be from your toes to the top of your scalp. Heartless bastards all, on a dark mission.
August 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Fascinating synthesis examining uncertainty reduction as a primary reinforcer across behavioural domains. Explains the role of cortico-cerebellar loops in cross-domain sequence processing. A fundamental role for curiosity in natural behaviour. 4087/2/3/10.20935/AcadNeurosci8451
Uncertainty reduction as a candidate primary reinforcer: an evolutionary and neural account
This integrative review proposes that the reduction in uncertainty may function as a candidate primary reinforcer in humans. The proposed mechanism is positive prediction error coding by the mesolimbi...
www.academia.edu
August 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
When I first came across AM, I found it superficially appealing... then the deeper i got, the worse it seemed to become.

Basically it's a reinforcer of Wennerism, with a few obvious tick-box concessions, and no apparent interest in ever interrogating the conclusions already drawn.
August 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Tipping is a negative reinforcer to the paying customer. Charge for delivery. That’s it.
August 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM