People with anxiety often perform "safety behaviors" during anxiety provoking situations. These safety behaviors make the person feel more comfortable in the situation by providing temporary relief ...

In the context of health anxiety, "safety behaviors" are what we do to try and prevent or reduce the anxiety we are experiencing from a given symptom, bodily sensation, or bodily function. The three ...

Every year roughly 12.3 million people struggle with suicidal thoughts, yet the vast majority don’t receive the life-saving intervention they desperately need. According to a recent study released by ...

For privacy, you can exit at any time. What is concerning or threatening behavior? An individual's collective actions, inactions, words, thought processes, and frame of mind may cause others around ...

The rationale, design and impact of strategies for prompting safety belt use are reviewed with special attention given to a particular discipline within behavioral science: applied behavior analysis.

A one-minute gun safety video could help prevent accidental injuries and death. That's the conclusion of researchers who published the results of their study of children in the Journal of the American ...