Communal reinforcement
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Communal reinforcement is a
behavioral method to stop drug addiction.[2]
In addiction treatment
The community-reinforcement approach (CRA) is a
Community reinforcement and family training
(CRAFT) is an adaptation of CRA that is aimed at giving the Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) of alcoholics skills to help them get the alcoholic into treatment.
In other applications
In
terrorist organization solidifies the mission of the group through communal reinforcement. Members are more likely to stay dedicated and follow through with the event of terror if they receive support from fellow terrorist members. An individual might abandon the mission in terror, but with the reinforcement of his peers, a member is more likely to stay involved.[4]
See also
- Argumentum ad populum, also known as Appeal to the population – Fallacy of claiming the majority is always correct
- Asch conformity experiments – Study of if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group
- Bandwagon effect – Societal phenomenon
- Indoctrination – Inculcating a person with certain ideas
- List of common misconceptions
- Collective consciousness – Shared beliefs and ideas in society
- Confirmation bias – Bias confirming existing attitudes
- Conformity – Matching opinions and behaviors to group norms
- Crowd manipulation – Application of crowd psychology
- Foot-in-the-door technique – Compliance tactic
- Groupthink – Psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people
- Group polarization – Tendency of a group to make more extreme decisions than the inclinations of its members
- Meme – Thought or idea that can be shared, in analogy to a gene
- Overton window – Range of ideas tolerated in public discourse
- Peer pressure – Influencing peers to conform
- Selective exposure theory – Theory within the practice of psychology
- Social constructionism – Sociological theory regarding shared understandings
- Social proof – Psychological phenomenon regarding conformity
- Spiral of silence – Political science and mass communication theory
- Truthiness – Quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than actual truth
References
- ^ The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions, p. 80, at Google Books
- ^ Introduction to Addictive Behaviors, p. 149, at Google Books
- ^ "Brochures and Fact Sheets | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)". Archived from the original on 2018-08-10. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ The Psychology of Terrorism: Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives, p. 131, at Google Books