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 ...

Skinner’s key insight is not so much about rewards and punishments per se, but about the process of how animal behavior evolves over the course of its lifetime. According to Skinner, animal behavior ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Behaviorism is back! That's what David ...