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 ...
B.F. Skinner gave us concepts like “conditioned behavior,” “positive reinforcement,” and even “time-outs” for children. But he was also a radical among psychologists who cast aside notions of dignity ...
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, ...