Phil McCrae has written a fascinating history of “innovation” in education that should be required reading for everyone, most especially journalists attending this week’s Education Writers Association ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While he might not be a household name for most people, B.F. Skinner is one of the most important psychologists in history due to ...

Besides Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner was the most famous and perhaps the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. But who was Skinner? Psychologists have now use source materials and standard ...

The American psychologist was known for developing behavior analysis.

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B.F. Skinner is not nearly as famous as Freud, and if you Google his name you won't find nearly as many hits as you will even for Jean Piaget. And yet it could be argued that his influence on ...

There is something slightly strange about the way people react to the word failure. Even hearing it can feel uncomfortable. The word carries weight. People hear it and immediately think about things ...

March 20th marks the birthday of famed behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who would have turned 108 today. Besides Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner was the most famous and perhaps the most influential ...