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B.F. Skinner


Born
in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, The United States
March 20, 1904

Died
August 18, 1990

Website

Genre
Science, Psychology, Behavioral Sciences

Influences
Charles Darwin, Ivan Pavlov, Sigmund Freud, Ernst Mach, Jacques Loeb


Burrhus Frederic Skinner 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 his retirement in 1974. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recor ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 15,116 ratings · 1,152 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors
Walden Two
3.52 avg rating — 8,141 ratings — published 1948 — 85 editions
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Beyond Freedom and Dignity
3.75 avg rating — 2,478 ratings — published 1971 — 65 editions
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Science and Human Behavior
4.03 avg rating — 1,892 ratings — published 1953 — 45 editions
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About Behaviorism
3.95 avg rating — 1,303 ratings — published 1974 — 38 editions
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Verbal Behavior (Official B...
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4.13 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 1957 — 30 editions
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Behavior of Organisms (Offi...
4.10 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1938 — 13 editions
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The Technology of Teaching
4.03 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions
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Schedules of Reinforcement ...
4.16 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions
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Contingencies of Reinforcem...
4.34 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Enjoy Old Age: A Program of...
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner
tags: achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial
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“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ”
― B.F. Skinner
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“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”
― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
tags: chaos, genius, society
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