A child's concern about hot-car deaths led to the invention of "Oasis," a patented device designed to alert parents if a ...

“Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed." --Albert Einstein In my own professional development, B. F. Skinner ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the years following World War II, ...

Adam Smith said that the wealth of a nation consists not in the gold in its vaults but in the productivity of its citizens. Cool! We increase productivity by building our human capital through ...

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 ...

I met BF Skinner when I was in grad school studying Applied Behavior Analysis. For me, meeting Dr. Skinner was the equivalent of a nursing student meeting Florence Nightingale, a medical student ...

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, ...

I don’t know much about B.F. Skinner, and what little I know makes me uncomfortable in the way hearing about eugenics makes me queasy. Operant conditioning. Behavior modification. Ideas about science ...