LITTLE ROCK — In the late 1960s, as psychologist B.F. Skinner’s behavior modification theory made the jump from academia into popular culture, the focus in child rearing shifted from molding character ...

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 ...

March 20th marks the birthday of famed behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who would have turned 108 today. Besides Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner was the most famous and perhaps the most influential ...

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, ...

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 ...

Long before there were grab and go lunches and weekly pub trivia nights, slot machines and pianos filled the basement of Memorial Hall. The lucky gamblers and musicians were not students or faculty, ...

“Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed." --Albert Einstein In my own professional development, B. F. Skinner ...

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 ...