Conversely, synergy is a positive-sum self-reinforcing game because it favors the recurrence and multiplication of mutually fruitful interactions, hence a possible divergence from a status quo.
Stevens' reputation as a hard hitter was reinforced in Game 2, where he leveled Vyacheslav Kozlov with a body check that temporarily knocked him out of the game.
They also had a popular theory reinforced by Game 6: the Knicks can find a way out of any desperate situation.
In developing the radio stations, the Rockstar team wanted to reinforce the game's recreation of California by licensing tracks they felt imparted an appropriate "Cali feel".
The Mets have gone 82-80 over their past 162 games, reinforcing the idea that, despite their boldface names and huge payroll, they are just not as good as believed.
A rather large foot has to be shoehorned into a rather small shoe in order for Lears to argue that after the Union victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War, "providentialist rhetoric transformed the war into a successful confidence game by reinforcing white Americans' confidence in the divinity of their nation's destiny".
A larger study population would be required to evaluate the impact of the anatomy game on reinforcing player knowledge.
In this study, a pretest posttest model was used to test the effectiveness of an educational card game in reinforcing biological concepts in comparison with traditional teaching methods.
"Video games, like slot machines, function as low-risk variable-ratio reinforcement — highly reinforcing".
This researcher believes the nature of this card game is applicable to most if not all disciplines and recommends parallel studies, especially on a wider scale (larger population), to further establish the claim of the effectiveness of educational card games in reinforcing learning.
In the end, the war game reinforced to military officials the unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of a strike by Israel, and a counterstrike by Iran, the officials said.
