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This paper describes characteristic behaviors of my father, B. F. Skinner, using family documents and my own recollections. Early contingencies in his upbringing strengthened his love of building things and his independence in discovering how the world works. Those skills, combined with a lack of supervision in graduate school, set the stage for his discovery of the operant. He did not stop wit...

germinated within 24 hours after prior exposure either to blue light or when maintained under complete darkness. However, far-red light augmented the germination of seeds pretreated with 6-benzylaminopurine so that nearly all such seeds germinated within 24 hours after treatment (table II). Far-red light also augmented the rate of germination of seed pretreated with a synergistic mixture of 6-b...

What are the distributional effects of advances in medical care? This important question has been relatively neglected by health economists. I will discuss some of the reasons for this neglect and speculate about possible answers. But first, I will comment on the Skinner-Zhou (S-Z) paper, looking at the questions they address and the answers they provide. Their first question concerns trends in...

This article examines Skinner’s often neglected ideas about evolution, which he returns to in his final academic paper. I attempt square advocacy for evolutionary explanation, including efforts reconcile biological, individual, and cultural adaptation, with how is framed critiqued by a school of psychologists who attribute Skinner blank slate, or so-called standard social science model, view th...

Resumo Vários estudos rastreando possíveis fontes que teriam norteado Skinner na construção do Behaviorismo sugeriram, de modo pouco preciso, elos científicos entre Claude Bernard e Skinner. Considerando o assunto, este trabalho realizou um comparativo sistemático ambos os autores, através das seguintes categorias: (1) interação organismo-ambiente; (2) mentalismo; (3) indução-dedução; (4) delin...