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 ...

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 ...

It is the theory which decides what can be observed." --Albert Einstein In my own professional development, B. F. Skinner provided the principal challenge to my beliefs. Our first discussions, which ...

I met BF Skinner when I was in grad school studying Applied Behavior Analysis. For me, meeting Dr. Skinner was the equivalent of a nursing student meeting Florence Nightingale, a medical student ...

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 ...