Science and Human Behavior

OMG!!! So I finally finished this thing. It’s an amazingly brilliant book by an absolute genius visionary hero of science. And..... It was a GHASTLY experience of a read. Not all together unpleasant. But a real feat of endurance to complete. Behaviorism has various levels of language (Bx-Speak). Upper lev......more

Reading this book for school, but it's a topic that would interest me anyway. Some of Skinner's assertions are hard to swallow (goodbye free-will!), but examining and explaining behavior from a strictly scientific perspective makes so much sense.......more

Reinforcements do shape behavior... But not enough to explain away human thought, music, and art. Ignore the dogmatic extensions of the theory and one will find a wealth of potential.......more

That ending hit hard. What a great way to close out the book! Superb.......more

Being a student of psychology I found very difficult to find some modern literature on behaviorism. Behaviorism has in fact almost disappeared from mainstream psychology which now bubbles with cognitive neuroscience and so on. Being quite difficult to retrieve some basic theory text on behaviorism I......more