While I appreciate David P. Barash’s fine essays, I take exception to his latest (“B.F. Skinner, Revisited,” The Chronicle Review, April 1). In it, he manages to misrepresent the views of not one but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While he might not be a household name for most people, B.F. Skinner is one of the most important psychologists in history due to ...

The human mind is truly a wonder to think about. Even without reflecting on the most visionary thing you’ve ever come up with, just considering all of the philosophers before us who influenced what we ...

B.F. Skinner is not nearly as famous as Freud, and if you Google his name you won't find nearly as many hits as you will even for Jean Piaget. And yet it could be argued that his influence on ...

Some Historical and Conceptual Background to the Development of B.F. Skinner's "Radical Behaviorism" — Part 1 Some Historical and Conceptual Background to the Development of B.F. Skinner's "Radical ...

In one famous experiment, Skinner pushed a button, causing a food pellet to drop into a pigeon's cage, whenever the bird inadvertently raised its head for a second or two. Getting a food pellet was a ...

I met BF Skinner when I was in grad school studying Applied Behavior Analysis. For me, meeting Dr. Skinner was the equivalent of a nursing student meeting Florence Nightingale, a medical student ...