B F: 47 books

On Parent's Day, in 1952, B. F. Skinner visited his daughter's fourth grade math class. As he watched the lesson, he became increasingly uncomfortable. Almost every principle of effective teaching that he had studied for more than 20 years was being violated in that classroom. Yet it was a typical...

With the publication of his first book, The Behavior of Organisms (1938), B. F. Skinner launched a new science based on selection by consequences as the mechanism through which behavior changes during the lifetime of the individual. The book summarizes nearly ten years of research, spanning the years...

As the title suggests, this book contains articles that Skinner first published elsewhere. The articles range widely in content, from the famous “A Case History in Scientific Method” to “Has Gertrude Stein a Secret.” The book is divided into the following sections: PART I: The Implications...

B. F. Skinner titled this book, Contingencies of Reinforcement, after the heart of his science of behavior. Contingencies relate classes of actions to postcedent events and to the contexts in which those action-postcedent relations occur. The basic processes seem straightforward, but many people do...

In 1934, at the age of 30, B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher.  Whitehead acknowledged that science might account...

The contingent relationship between actions and their consequences lies at the heart of Skinner’s experimental analysis of behavior. Particular patterns of behavior emerge depending upon the contingencies established. Ferster and Skinner examined the effects of different schedules of reinforcement...

Extrait :  C’était vers la fin du mois d’août, par une belle matinée claire et chaude. La réunion de la famille Karamazov chez le starets Zossima devait  avoir lieu à onze heures et demie. On avait eu recours, en désespoir de cause, à cette assemblée d’un conseil de famille,...

If you could trade one year of your life to be the most beautiful woman in the room, the woman that every other woman wishes she could be, the woman that every man wanted, what would you be willing to pay? What would you do to have a perfect body, to have a perfect face, to be thoroughly connected?...

Keller and Shoenfeld’s Principles of Psychology, published in 1950, was written as an introductory text to be used in the two-semester Psychology 1-2 course at Columbia University. It is a systematic approach in that a small number of functional relations described in B. F. Skinner’s The Behavior...

Derek is an eighteen year-old that struggles in every social situation imaginable - so how on earth is he going to fair at becoming the CEO of a multi-million dollar wedding company?! As a series of attempts on his life start to occur however, impressing his new boss is the least of his worries as...

“…An Era of Creation gives a new world to man An Era of its Flourishing began it’s lifespan An Era of Conscious minds inserted to live An Era of Utopia, the Machina did give An Era of Awakening, where the dead were revived An Era of Corruption, where evil did...

Avery Dalton is young … so it doesn’t matter how people mistreat her … but then something happens – the one thing that has the potential to send her life spiralling down a bottomless chasm of seething despair and darkness … and she doesn’t stand for it! Disgusted by the abuse of young...

Rushchon Treviste has lost the love of his life to another man, a shape shifting fire dragon who is a warrior to the royal dragon guard. Rushchon is not a dragon, he is royalty. Rushchon Treviste, low king of Pachemus to the region of Gracon. He should be the one with the girl. So why did Esa Montgomery,...

Rushchon Treviste has lost the love of his life to another man, a shape shifting fire dragon who is a warrior to the royal dragon guard. Rushchon is not a dragon, he is royalty. Rushchon Treviste, low king of Pachemus to the region of Gracon. He should be the one with the girl. So why did Esa Montgomery,...