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 ...

B. F. Skinner is arguably psychology’s most influential academic, and is perhaps second only to Freud in terms of psychological scholars who have had an impact on society at large. And as with Freud, ...

Discover B. F. Skinner's Rorschach results and how they unveil insights about behaviorism's leading exponent. Skinner was the world's leading exponent of behaviourism, a school of thought that held ...

If you took a psychology class in high school or college, you may remember something about the work of B.F. Skinner, one of the most famous psychologists of the 20th century. He’s the guy who trained ...

Over the years, I have often heard faculty describe their role as creating an engaging learning environment, effectively delivering content, and instilling in students a “love of learning.” This ...

Burrhus Frederic Skinner studied observable behavior along with its causes and consequences. He showed how people given positive reinforcement are likely to repeat the action. When a small business ...

Depending on which study or authority you believe, something like 80 to 90 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail. Given that this process of setting goals and failing dishearteningly has been going ...

Behavior and Philosophy, Vol. 48 (2020), pp. 34-46 (13 pages) Baum, W. M. (2004a). The accidental behaviorist: A review of The new behaviorism by John Staddon. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of ...

Behavior and Philosophy, Vol. 31 (2003), pp. 63-80 (18 pages) In this article we examine some of the relations between behavior analysis and the pragmatic philosophy of William James. We point out ...