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 ...

The present article is the third in a series of three that outlines the historical and conceptual background of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviorism as a philosophy of science. Of special interest in ...

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, ...

The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 1990), pp. 19-36 (18 pages) The present paper examines three issues from the perspective of Skinner's radical behaviorism: (a) the nature of ...

Psychologist B.F. Skinner was a proponent of operant conditioning as a means to the modification of human behavior; positive or negative reinforcement could be used to promote certain behaviors. In ...

The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

What happened when the world's most no-nonsense psychologist took a Rorschach test? A fun little paper reports on B. F. Skinner's Rorschach results. He agreed to be tested as part of a 1953 project ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most ...