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[quote=KATRINA,272421]Do you want an obedient spouse? I browsed a book review in Newsweek which says:"A new book says you should coach them like animals. "

Here is the first paragraph of the article. That is quite interesting. For more info about the article, you can search the article on the net.

By Jennie Yabroff | NEWSWEEK
Feb 18, 2008 Issue | Updated: 1:32  p.m. ET Feb 9, 2008
Attention, frustrated wives: if you want your husband to start listening to you and stop leaving his socks on the floor, all you need is a little patience and a lot of mackerel. Such is the putative relationship advice of Amy Sutherland, a journalist who spent a year at an animal-trainer school and decided to apply the trainers' techniques to her husband's annoying habits. According to Sutherland, the key to marital bliss is to ignore negative habits and reward positive ones, the same approach animal trainers use to get killer whales to leap from their tanks and elephants to stand on their heads. So to teach her husband, Scott, to stop storming around the house when he couldn't find his keys, she practiced what trainers call Least Reinforcing Scenario, which means she ignored his outbursts, and didn't offer to help with the search. To prevent Scott from hovering over her while she tried to cook, she engineered "incompatible behaviors" by setting a bowl of chips and salsa at the other end of the room. Soon she had a key-finding, salsa-eating mate and, she says, a happier marriage.[/quote]

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