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 ...
Feel your commitment to your New Year’s resolution flagging already? Skinner’s law is decades old, but it is still the solution. Right around this time of year, we journalists feel compelled ...
An unexpected WW2 experiment by behaviourist B F Skinner proved that pigeons could be used for missile guidance.
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 ...
Some simple techniques of the psychological laboratory can also be used in the home. They can train a dog to dance, a pigeon to play a toy piano and will illuminate the learning process in man ...
In 1938, B. F. Skinner proposed that all of behavior reflects reaction to rewards and punishments (reinforcers) provided by the environment. He believed that the voluntary behavior of organisms is ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, B.F. Skinner pursued behaviorism with the view of improving the human condition, for example, and others since have applied behaviorism as a tool in an array of ...
The next series by Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichiro Watanabe will be released in a few weeks, with an intriguing plot about a ...