B. F. Skinner was one of the tallest figures in 20th-century scientific psychology, casting a long and enduring shadow. His experimental research and theoretical work provided new views of language, ...

Long before there were grab and go lunches and weekly pub trivia nights, slot machines and pianos filled the basement of Memorial Hall. The lucky gamblers and musicians were not students or faculty, ...

B.F. Skinner is a creature of carefully shaped habit. At the age of 83, he has fashioned a schedule and environment for himself that is in perfect keeping with his theories of behavioral reinforcement ...

B.F. Skinner was one of those intellectual supernovae who shine brilliantly in the academic heavens, then vanish, seemingly without a trace. Scarcely three years after the famed Harvard professor’s ...

Our social media addiction is explained by theories pioneered by B.F. Skinner decades ago. Social media’s power over consumers is not by chance, it is by design. Theories pioneered decades ago by B.F.