Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 209 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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

1. Century psychology series

Uniform title

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

Subject

1. Behaviorism (Psychology)
2. Personality and culture
3. Behaviorism
4. Behaviorismus
5. Soziologie
6. Soziologische Theorie
7. Behaviorisme
8. Persoonlijkheid
9. Culturele invloeden
10. Behaviorismus
11. Soziologie
12. Soziologische Theorie

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.