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 ...

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.

Operant conditioning was first described by psychologist B.F. Skinner. His theory was based on two assumptions. First, the cause of human behavior is something in a person’s environment.

B.F. Skinner is responsible for the term "positive reinforcement." ... Skinner wrote several works applying his behavioral theories to society, including Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971).

B.F Skinner, a leading 20th century psychologist who hypothesized that behavior was caused only by external factors, not by thoughts or emotions, was a controversial figure in a field that tends ...

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… ...

Behaviorist theories in classroom management. Behaviorism is rooted in the works of BF Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, and John Watson. It is a psychological theory that emphasizes observable behaviors and the ...

Skinner’s anti-mentalistic perspective can be summarized as follows: First, in a manner directly paralleling the ToK System, he argued that human behavior was the product of three separate ...

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 ...