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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While he might not be a household name for most people, B.F. Skinner is one of the most important psychologists in history due to ...

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 is not nearly as famous as Freud, and if you Google his name you won't find nearly as many hits as you will even for Jean Piaget. And yet it could be argued that his influence on ...

Introduction: beyond the box -- A visible scientist: B.F. Skinner as public intellectual -- From pigeons to people: constructing the human Skinner box -- Conditioning a cure: behavior modification in ...