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 ...
Quote of the day: Today’s Quote by B.F. Skinner shows readers that progress often depends less on avoiding failure and more ...
Functional analysis has a long history in psychology. Originally borrowed from mathematics (Ponte, 1992), it is the central concept in behavior analysis, the perspective on psychology created by B. F.