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 ...
SIXTY years ago, renowned Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner published one of the most important books ever written about language. Verbal Behavior offered a comprehensive account of our unique ...
I remember when I was in graduate school in the mid-1960s I took a class with the great personality theorist, Gordon Allport. I do not remember much from the class, but I do recall the moment when ...