The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

Behavior and Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 1, The Study of Behavior: Philosophical, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges (2004), pp. 5-12 (8 pages) The evolution of behaviorism from its explicit ...

Radical behaviorism, a behaviorism associated with the views of B.F. Skinner, is often contrasted with methodological behaviorism. The nature of this contrast is explored by examining what Skinner ...

My recent article, "Behavior Modification Is Everywhere: Why Education Can’t Afford to Pretend Otherwise," sparked thoughtful, even passionate, comments from readers. These responses highlighted ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

Have you ever wondered exactly why people do what they do? According to a school of thought known as behaviorism, it all ...

IT is said that when Faraday showed a group of scientists his discovery of magneto-electricity, someone asked: ‘Of what use is it?' To which he replied: ‘Of what use is a babe?' Dr. Watson not only ...

Who do you want your child to be when they grow up? This is a question that we all need to consider when determining if behaviorism is working in the classroom. Currently, in almost every classroom ...

Get the rat to the cheese. That's really what each U.S. political party is promising to do if its candidate is elected President. The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker. The cheese ...

As April approaches, autistics anxiously await another annual air raid of “autism awareness” campaigns that frame our neurodivergence as a “disorder” and dismiss our demands for acceptance.