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, ...

B.F. Skinner, one of the century’s leading psychologists who believed human behavior could be engineered to build a better world, died of leukemia. He was 86. In his research and his writings, ...

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 ...

What happened when the world's most no-nonsense psychologist took a Rorschach test? A fun little paper reports on B. F. Skinner's Rorschach results. He agreed to be tested as part of a 1953 project ...

Several recent writers have argued that the rejection of hypothetical constructs is one of the defining features of radical behaviorism. The present discussion argues that this claim is ill-founded ...