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 ...

Functional analysis is an old concept within psychology. Recent scientific advances in understanding human language can put ...

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 ...

Joseph Ray of Tennessee worked on a combination of instruments in the 1930s. B.F. Skinner of the University of Minnesota and then Harvard University worked on machines for animal learning. During ...

He also endured a few rocky seasons with the Sabres that ended in him being bought out. In his first year with the Edmonton ...