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Archives. Photos. The B.F. Skinner Foundation has an extensive collection of photographs including pictures of B. F. Skinner, his laboratory work, his family, and his colleagues. The Foundation will be adding more photos to this page as they are digitized.
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Biographical Information. B. F. Skinner was born on March...
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Skinner’s lecture Creating the Creative Artist B. F. Skinner...
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Commemorative lecture given by B.F. Skinner after receiving...
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Books by B. F. Skinner. The Behavior of Organisms: An...
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Canonical papers of B. F. Skinner. The Behavioral and Brain...
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Psychologist B.F. Skinner began working on ideas of human behavior after earning his doctorate from Harvard. Skinner's works include The Behavior of Organisms (1938) and a novel based on his theories Walden Two (1948). He explored behaviorism in relation to society in later books, including Beyond Freedom and Human Dignity(1971).
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20, 1904, in the small town of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, where he also grew up. His father was a lawyer and his mother stayed home to care for Skinner and his younger brother. At an early age, Skinner showed an interest in building different gadgets and contraptions. As a student at Hamilton College, B.F....
At Harvard, B.F. Skinner looked for a more objective and measured way to study behavior. He developed what he called an operant conditioning apparatus to do this, which became better known as the Skinner box. With this device, Skinner could study an animal interacting with its environment. He first studied rats in his experiments, seeing how the ro...
While teaching at the University of Minnesota, Skinner tried to train pigeons to serve as guides for bombing runs during World War II. This project was canceled, but he was able to teach them how to play ping pong. Skinner turned to a more domestic endeavor during the war. In 1943, he built a new type of crib for his second daughter Deborah at his ...
In his later years, Skinner took to chronicling his life and research in a series of autobiographies. He also continued to be active in the field of behavioral psychology — a field he helped popularize. In 1989, Skinner was diagnosed with leukemia. He succumbed to the disease the following year, dying at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug...
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.
B.F. Skinner was the 20th century’s most influential psychologist, pioneering the science of behaviorism. Inventor of the Skinner Box, he discovered the power of positive reinforcement in learning, and he designed the first psychological experiments to give quantitatively repeatable and predictable results.
May 16, 2024 · Awards and Recognitions. Publications. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) was an American psychologist known for his impact on behaviorism. In a 2002 survey of psychologists, he was identified as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. Skinner himself referred to his philosophy as "radical behaviorism."
May 14, 2024 · B.F. Skinner (born March 20, 1904, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died August 18, 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American psychologist and an influential exponent of behaviourism, which views human behaviour in terms of responses to environmental stimuli and favours the controlled, scientific study of responses as the most direct ...
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