What was B.F. Skinner really like? A new study parses his traits
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 23:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Besides Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner was the most famous and perhaps the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. But who was Skinner? Psychologists have now use source materials and standard measures of personality traits to describe him and compare him with other eminent scientists. Their study reveals a complex man -- but nothing like the monster his detractors called him.