Burrhus Frederic "Fred" Skinner (March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990), Ph.D. was a highly influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until retirement in 1974. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called "Radical Behaviorism", … Wikipedia
A new book has rekindled old rumours that renowned psychologist BF Skinner used his baby daughter in his experiments. books.guardian.co.uk/departments/healthmindandbody/story/...
'SUPERSTITION' IN THE PIGEON B. F. Skinner Indiana University First published in Journal of Experimental Psychology , 38 , 168-172. psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Pigeon/
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Skinner's behaviorism represents a reaction from this basically romantic psychology with its focus on the "inner man," possessing an inner theater where "the life of the mind" could be played out independent of life itself. www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/bskinner.html
Skinner believed that the only scientific approach to psychology was one that studied behaviors, not internal (subjective) mental processes. www.nndb.com/people/297/000022231/
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