Psychologist Slater's account of 10 of the most influential—and controversial—experimental forays into the mind's inner workings is neither clinical nor dispassionate. Slater (Lying, a Metaphorical ...

Psychologist and author Lauren Slater joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. These include the noted ...

A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of speaking on “The Attention Drug Wars” panel at South by South West (SXSW). The discussion centered on how successful social media companies like Facebook ...

Todays Quote by B.F. Skinner shows readers that progress often depends less on avoiding failure and more on the determination ...

If there is a beginning to this story, it began at the Salk Institute where I was finishing up some research with Dr. Jonas Salk. I was having my coffee when the letter came. Robert P. Lanza c/o Dr.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was one of the preeminent American psychologists of the 20th century. B.F. Skinner founded “radical behaviorism”—a twist on traditional behaviorism, a field of psychology that ...

Pigeons are now learning other trades besides decorating statues and outdoor monuments, the Harvard Psychological Laboratories announced recently. Psychology professor B. F. Skinner is using the birds ...