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 ...

Behavior, folks learn from Skinner, is all about rewards and punishments. While there is certainly a grain of truth to this characterization, it glosses over the essence of Skinner’s key insight ...

B.F. Skinner gave us concepts like "conditioned behavior," "positive reinforcement," and even "time-outs" for children. But he was also a radical among ...

B.F. Skinner founded “radical behaviorism”—a twist on traditional behaviorism, a field of psychology that focused exclusively on observable human behavior. Thoughts, feelings, and ...

Besides Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner was the most famous and perhaps the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. But who was Skinner? ... But his own "radical behaviorism" ...

This week marks the birthday of B.F. Skinner.The celebrated and sometimes controversial American behavioral scientist, who was born in Susquehanna, Penn. on March 20, 1904 and spent much of his ...

Skinner's radical research on behaviorism laid the groundwork for applied behavior analysis. The discipline has continued to grow substantially so that behavior analysis is now a robust field with ...

Psychologist B.F. Skinner taught these pigeons to play ping-pong in 1950. Photo via Psychology Pictures. B.F Skinner, a leading 20th century psychologist who hypothesized that behavior was caused ...

B.F. Skinner, one of the century’s leading psychologists who believed human behavior could be engineered to build a better world, died of leukemia. He was 86. In his research and his writings… ...