I remember when I was in graduate school in the mid-1960s I took a class with the great personality theorist, Gordon Allport. I do not remember much from the class, but I do recall the moment when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quote of the day: Today’s Quote by B.F. Skinner shows readers that progress often depends less on avoiding failure and more ...

B.F. Skinner, 86, died of leukemia last month in Cambridge, Mass. The noted behaviorist had received a lifetime achievement award two days earlier from the American Psychological Association at its ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the years following World War II, ...

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 ...

But the real message lies elsewhere, as I suggested, in the work of BF Skinner. Now that we have captured the physicians, what makes them run faster or push the lever more often? For the pigeons and ...

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 ...