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 ...

The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

What happened when the world's most no-nonsense psychologist took a Rorschach test? A fun little paper reports on B. F. Skinner's Rorschach results. He agreed to be tested as part of a 1953 project ...

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 ...

Burrhus Frederic Skinner studied observable behavior along with its causes and consequences. He showed how people given positive reinforcement are likely to repeat the action. When a small business ...

The history of psychology is full of disputes among various "-isms": behaviorism, cognitivism, functionalism, and many others. Nevertheless, all are unanimous in their opposition to one other -ism: ...

The purpose of this commentary is to discuss briefly a few points arising from Malone's (2001) interesting paper, "Ontology Recapitulates Philology: Willard Quine, Pragmatism, and Radical Behaviorism.

Over the years, I have often heard faculty describe their role as creating an engaging learning environment, effectively delivering content, and instilling in students a “love of learning.” This ...