Burrhus Frederic Skinner

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Noun1.Burrhus Frederic Skinner - United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990)
B. F. Skinner, Fred Skinner, Skinner
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Skinner, incidentally, was Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-90), an American psychologist and behaviorist who believed free will is an illusion and that human actions are dependent on the consequences of previous actions.
Mixing psychology and theatre; Some of the most eyebrow-raising psychological experiments of the 20th Century are the substance of a new play opening in Newcastle, as David Whetstone reports
The net result was that Boas's cultural relativism swept to victory in the human sciences--Emile Durkheim in sociology, Burrhus Frederic Skinner and John B.
Nature and nurture in Jorge Amado's Tent of Miracles
American psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner, however, took Pavlov's classical conditioning to whole new heights.
The new face of psychiatry: with little conscious awareness, Americans are being coerced daily by psychiatry to believe facts that are untrue and modify their beliefs, and conditioned not to use reasoning
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