behavior

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• The Hawthorne Effect: What It Is and Whether It Holds Up
  The Hawthorne effect is the tendency of people to change their behavior when they know they are being observed, a claim later reviews have made much less certain.
• Social Loafing: Why People Work Less in Groups
  Social loafing is the tendency to put in less effort when working in a group than alone, especially when no one can see how much each person contributed.
• Operant Conditioning
  Learning through consequences: reinforcement increases behavior and punishment decreases it, as studied by B. F. Skinner.
• Classical Conditioning
  The learning process discovered by Ivan Pavlov in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a reflexive response.