B.F. Skinner was one of those intellectual supernovae who shine brilliantly in the academic heavens, then vanish, seemingly without a trace. Scarcely three years after the famed Harvard professor’s ...

Discover B. F. Skinner's Rorschach results and how they unveil insights about behaviorism's leading exponent. Skinner was the world's leading exponent of behaviourism, a school of thought that held ...

In one famous experiment, Skinner pushed a button, causing a food pellet to drop into a pigeon's cage, whenever the bird inadvertently raised its head for a second or two. Getting a food pellet was a ...

B.F. Skinner gave us concepts like “conditioned behavior,” “positive reinforcement,” and even “time-outs” for children. But he was also a radical among psychologists who cast aside notions of dignity ...

Probably no psychologist's views are so routinely misunderstood as those of "Mr. Behaviorist," B.E Skinner. Skinner did not say, for example, that people don't think; instead, he said, "Human thought ...

Nose Cone from B.F. Skinner's Pigeon-Guided Missile, on display in "Science in American Life." Photo courtesy American History Museum It’s 1943, and America desperately needs a way to reliably bomb ...

But the real message lies elsewhere, as I suggested, in the work of BF Skinner. Now that we have captured the physicians, what makes them run faster or push the lever more often? For the pigeons and ...