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 ...

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 ...

“Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed." --Albert Einstein In my own professional development, B. F. Skinner ...

Behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner was a major proponent of operant conditioning as a means to the modification of human behavior. Operant conditioning involves the use of positive or negative ...

Probably no psychologist's views are so routinely misunderstood as those of "Mr. Behaviorist," B.E Skinner. Skinner did not say, for example, that people don't think; instead, he said, "Human thought ...