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Behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. B. F. Skinner, one of the century's leading
psychologists, who believed human behavior could be engineered to
build a better world, has died of leukemia. He was 86.
Mr. Skinner died Saturday at Mount Auburn Hospital in this
university city.
He was the patriarch of the school of thought known as
behaviorism and the inventor of what has become known as the "Skinner
box," a crucial tool for demonstrating his theory that rewarded
behavior is repeated.
While remembered - and sometimes scorned - for teaching pigeons
to play Ping-Pong, he also wrote a 1948 novel, Walden Two, ...
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