Actually, maybe you don’t need a new breakthrough. Legendary psychologist B.F. Skinner figured out how to beat back temptation and keep your commitments 87 years ago. The only question is why so ...
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 ... N.Y., in 1926 and received his Ph.D. in 1931 from Harvard. He joined the psychology department at the University of Minnesota in 1936 and ...
"Psychology as the behaviorist views it ... 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 ...
Dave Palmer teaches behavioral psychology and statistics at Smith while also working part-time as a consulting psychologist at a program for adults with developmental disabilities. He is an ardent ...
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 ...