In his article “Creolized Chinese Societies in Southeast Asia,” the anthropologist William Skinner developed the idea of the overseas Chinese diaspora as “the creation through ‘fusion’ of a new sociocultural system that achieved autonomy and stability despite continued contact with both parent societies.” In an anthropological view, Skinner saw Java as one of the examples in which the Chinese c...

Skinner et al.’s Journal Club paper [1] was prompted by our original publication inAddiction [2]. Thereareareas covered whichdeserve furtherdiscussionand inwriting this,wefind ourselves in two minds. While we agree with Skinner et al. that the development of drinking guidelines and other interventions could benefit from a more contextualized understanding of alcohol use, we feel that some of ou...

As diferenças epistemológicas entre Skinner e Platão são amplamente conhecidas. Contudo, no âmbito político, parece aproximar-se de Platão, inclusive mencionando a República como uma inspiração para Walden two. Partindo dessa afinidade, este artigo tem o objetivo explicitar semelhanças políticas two República. Para evitar um anacronismo com termo ‘política’, em obras temporal culturalmente dife...

Skinner discussed the topic of motivation in every chapter of the book Verbal Behavior (1957), usually with his preferred terminology of "deprivation, satiation, and aversive stimulation." In the current paper, direct quotations are used to systematically take the reader through 30 separate points made by Skinner in Verbal Behavior that collectively provide a comprehensive analysis of his posit...

When a reinforcement is delivered according to a fixed-ratio schedule, it has been found that responding occurs in a specific temporal pattern (Ferster & Skinner, 1957). Periods of no responding characteristically follow the delivery of the reinforcer. Once responding begins, it assumes a very high rate of several responses per second. The resulting performance is bivalued; responding occurs ei...

9 W. G. Penney, Phys. Rev., 39, 467 (1932). 10 See for example, H. Weyl, Gruppentheorie, p. 159; H. Honl, Zeit. f. Phys., 31, 340 (1925). 11 H. W. B. Skinner, Proc. Roy. Soc., A112, 642 (1926); H. W. B. Skinner and E. T. S. Appleyard, Proc. Roy. Soc., A117, 224 (1927); B. Quarder, Zeit. f. Phys., 41, 674 (1927); A. Ellett, P. D. Foote and F. L. Mohler, Phys. Rev., 27, 31 (1926); J. A. Eldridge ...