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Reflections on behaviorism and society

Title: Reflections on behaviorism and society / B.F. Skinner.
Author: Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990.
Publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1978.

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Description

xii, 209 pages; 24 cm

Summary

B.F. Skinner presents his views on behavior modification and the role of behaviorism in society, education, and future attainment of the goals of humanism.

Series Statement

Century psychology series

Uniform Title

Century psychology series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.)

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Human behavior and democracy -- Are we free to have a future? -- The ethics of helping people -- Humanism and behaviorism -- Walden two revisited -- The steep and thorny way to a science of behavior -- Can we profit from our discovery of behavioral science? -- Why I am not a cognitive psychologist -- The experimental analysis of behavior (a history) -- Some implications of making education more efficient -- The free and happy student -- Designing higher education -- The shaping of phylogenic behavior -- The force of coincidence -- Reflections of meaning and structure -- Walden (one) and Walden two -- Freedom and dignity revisited -- Freedom at last, from the burden of taxation.

ISBN

0137700571
9780137700578

LCCN

77028636

OCLC

ocm03609143
3609143
SCSB-276025

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library