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 ...

Skinner’s key insight is not so much about rewards and punishments per se, but about the process of how animal behavior evolves over the course of its lifetime. According to Skinner, animal behavior ...

B. F. Skinner is arguably psychology’s most influential academic, and is perhaps second only to Freud in terms of psychological scholars who have had an impact on society at large. And as with Freud, ...

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 ...

Depending on which study or authority you believe, something like 80 to 90 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail. Given that this process of setting goals and failing dishearteningly has been going ...