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 ...

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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 was one of the preeminent American psychologists of the 20th century. B.F. Skinner founded “radical behaviorism”—a twist on traditional behaviorism, a field of psychology that ...

Have you ever wondered exactly why people do what they do? According to a school of thought known as behaviorism, it all comes down to the patterns of learning we've acquired through associations, ...

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 ...