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 ...

Professor B. F. Skinner, of the University of Indiana, delivered the fifth in the series of William James Lectures on Psychology yesterday afternoon in Emerson D. Professor Skinner's talk was ...

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 ...

SIXTY years ago, renowned Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner published one of the most important books ever written about language. Verbal Behavior offered a comprehensive account of our unique ...

I’m not a theologian. I’m a psychologist and natural scientist who studies behavior in context, particularly how language shapes both human suffering and flourishing, and how subcultures reinforce ...

I’m not a theologian. I’m a psychologist and natural scientist who studies behavior in context, particularly how language shapes both human suffering and flourishing, and how subcultures reinforce ...

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 ...