Throughout his 39 years working in the OPS, Skinner pushed for social change internally. He made it his mission to get black teachers into predominantly white schools, and he fought to get the ...

B.F Skinner, a leading 20th century psychologist who hypothesized that behavior was caused only by external factors, not by thoughts or emotions, was a controversial figure in a field that tends ...

B.F. Skinner is not nearly as famous ... it's as simple as why white rats may press furiously on a lever in a Skinner box. Both are programmed to provide reinforcement on what's called a variable ...