B.F. Skinner is a psychologist best known for the Skinner Box, a kind of sensory-deprivation device which limits the creature inside it to only one form of stimulus at a time. Using one such box, he ...

Nose Cone from B.F. Skinner's Pigeon-Guided Missile, on display in "Science in American Life." Photo courtesy American History Museum It’s 1943, and America desperately needs a way to reliably bomb ...

Though the word “punishment” has been used for centuries, the way we use it with children comes from the writings and research of B.F. Skinner. Through his work with pigeons, Skinner developed a way ...