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According to Wikipedia, Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. Considered the father of Behaviorism, he was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.

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B. F. Skinner's Published Works

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Science and human behavior (1953) (6106)
Schedules of reinforcement (1957) (2388)
The Behavior of Organisms (1991) (2286)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1972) (1868)
Is it behaviorism? (1986) (1520)
Superstition in the pigeon. (1948) (1413)
Some quantitative properties of anxiety (1941) (1334)
The operational analysis of psychological terms. (1945) (1178)
Selection by consequences (1981) (1123)
Technology of Teaching (1967) (1112)
Contingencies of reinforcement : a theoretical analysis (1969) (1100)
Contingencies Of Reinforcement (1969) (830)
A case history in scientific method. (1956) (625)
The Generic Nature of the Concepts of Stimulus and Response (1935) (579)
The science of learning and the art of teaching. (1954) (570)
What is the experimental analysis of behavior? (1966) (532)
Teaching machines; from the experimental study of learning come devices which arrange optimal conditions for self instruction. (1958) (511)
The evolution of behavior. (1984) (497)
Behaviorism at fifty (1963) (475)
Teaching machines. (1959) (467)
The phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior (1966) (459)
An operant analysis of problem solving (1984) (416)
The concept of the reflex in the description of behavior. (1931) (401)
Why I am Not a Cognitive Psychologist (1977) (373)
Can psychology be a science of mind (1990) (329)
Two Types of Conditioned Reflex and a Pseudo Type (1935) (326)
Two Types of Conditioned Reflex: A Reply to Konorski and Miller (1937) (299)
Behavior modification. (1974) (286)
The Shaping of a Behaviorist (1979) (280)
"Self-awareness" in the pigeon. (1981) (262)
Review Lecture - The technology of teaching (1965) (257)
Reflections on behaviorism and society (1978) (247)
Whatever happened to psychology as the science of behavior (1987) (239)
Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons, (Columba livia domestica) (1980) (229)
Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior: A Symposium (1956) (215)
The origins of cognitive thought. (1989) (214)
Recent issues in the analysis of behavior (1989) (209)
The Shame of American Education. (1984) (201)
Pigeons in a pelican. (1960) (189)
Some contributions of an experimental analysis of behavior to psychology as a whole. (1953) (176)
Drive and Reflex Strength (1932) (173)
Cognitive science and behaviourism. (1985) (173)
The shaping of phylogenic behavior. (1975) (162)
How to teach animals. (1951) (159)
The Analysis of Behavior (1964) (157)
A second type of superstition in the pigeon. (1957) (156)
Trends in behavior therapy (1979) (150)
Herrnstein and the evolution of behaviorism. (1977) (144)
Programmed Instruction Revisited. (1986) (141)
The Analysis of Behavior: A Program for Self-Instruction (1961) (135)
Some factors involved in the stimulus control of operant behavior. (1958) (133)
What is wrong with daily life in the Western world (1986) (128)
The operational analysis of psychological terms (1984) (126)
Why we need teaching machines. (1961) (125)
Upon Further Reflection (1986) (121)
The Verbal Summator and a Method for the Study of Latent Speech (1936) (119)
The evolution of verbal behavior. (1986) (118)
The steep and thorny way to a science of behavior. (1975) (118)
Some issues concerning the control of human behavior (1990) (118)
Can the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Rescue Psychology? (1983) (118)
The shaping of a behaviorist : part two of an autobiography (1979) (114)
Particulars of My Life (1976) (112)
Cumulative record : a selection of papers (1972) (112)
On the Rate of Formation of a Conditioned Reflex (1932) (105)
Cumulative record (enlarged ed.). (1961) (102)
Drive and Reflex Strength: II (1932) (102)
Intellectual self-management in old age. (1983) (99)
Freedom and the control of men. (1955) (93)
Beyond freedom and dignity, New York (Alfred A. Knopf) 1971. (1971) (91)
Farewell, My LOVELY!1 (1976) (91)
Effects of caffeine and benzedrine upon conditioning and extinction. (1937) (90)
The distribution of associated words (1937) (88)
Concurrent activity under fixed-interval reinforcement. (1957) (86)
ON THE CONDITIONS OF ELICITATION OF CERTAIN EATING REFLEXES. (1930) (84)
The operant side of behavior therapy. (1988) (81)
The problem of consciousness: A debate (1967) (81)
Two 'synthetic social relations'. (1962) (79)
Resurgence of responding after the cessation of response-independent reinforcement. (1980) (78)
The Behavior of the Listener (1989) (68)
The rate of establishment of a discrimination. (1933) (68)
Plan of analysis. (1957) (66)
A matter of consequences : part three of an autobiography (1983) (64)
Methods and theories in the experimental analysis of behavior (1984) (62)
Beyond Freedom & Dignity (1971) (62)
Conditioned and unconditioned aggression in pigeons. (1963) (60)
The Extinction of Chained Reflexes. (1934) (59)
'Superstition' in the pigeon. 1948. (1992) (58)
Farewell, My LOVELY! (1976) (56)
Fixed-interval reinforcement of running in a wheel. (1958) (54)
John Broadus Watson, behaviorist. (1959) (52)
The Measurement of “Spontaneous Activity” (1933) (50)
The processes involved in the repeated guessing of alternatives. (1942) (48)
The alliteration in Shakespeare's sonnets: a study in literary behavior. (1939) (48)
Some thoughts about the future. (1986) (47)
A better way to deal with selection (1983) (47)
Contingencies of reinforcement in the design of a culture. (1966) (46)
Has Gertrude Stein a Secret (1961) (46)
Diagramming schedules of reinforcement. (1958) (45)
What Is Psychotic Behavior (1961) (45)
Coming to terms with private events (1984) (45)
On the Rate of Extinction of a Conditioned Reflex (1933) (45)
A Quantitative Estimate of Certain Types of Sound-Patterning in Poetry (1941) (42)
How to discover what you have to say—A talk to students (1981) (41)
Conditioning and Extinction and Their Relation to Drive (1936) (36)
Changes in hunger during starvation (1937) (36)
The ethics of helping people. (1996) (35)
The Flight from the Laboratory. (1961) (34)
“Resistance to Extinction” in the Process of Conditioning (1933) (34)
An automatic shocking-grid apparatus for continuous use. (1947) (33)
Teaching Science in High School-- What Is Wrong?: Scientists have not brought the methods of science to bear on the improvement of instruction. (1968) (33)
Reflections on a decade of teaching machines: (685262012-094) (1963) (32)
SECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY: THE CONTROL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR† (1955) (32)
"Lying" in the pigeon. (1982) (32)
The control of human behavior. (1955) (31)
The Free and Happy Student. (1973) (31)
Expanding the Operant Analysis (1987) (30)
To Know the Future (1990) (29)
10 – The Experimental Analysis of Operant Behavior: A History (1980) (29)
Contingency Management in the Classroom. (1969) (27)
The rate of extinction in maze-bright and maze-dull rats (1940) (25)
Contrived Reinforcement (1982) (25)
The Effect on the Amount of Conditioning of an Interval of Time before Reinforcement (1936) (24)
A Failure to Obtain “Disinhibition” (1936) (24)
Current Trends in Experimental Psychology. (1961) (24)
The Abolishment of a Discrimination. (1933) (24)
Enjoy Old Age: A Program of Self-Management (1983) (23)
Sustained performance during very long experimental sessions. (1958) (22)
Thirst as an Arbitrary Drive (1936) (21)
THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF OPERANT BEHAVIOR (1977) (20)
A Discrimination without Previous Conditioning. (1934) (20)
Verbal behavior / B.F. Skinner (1957) (19)
Reflections on a Decade of Teaching Machines (1963) (19)
Some consequences of selection (1984) (19)
News from Nowhere, 1984 (1985) (19)
The Reinforcing Effect of a Differentiating Stimulus (1936) (19)
SOME CONDITIONS AFFECTING INTENSITY AND DURATION THRESHOLDS IN MOTOR NERVE, WITH REFERENCE TO CHRONAXIE OF SUBORDINATION (1933) (18)
Peaceful coexistence in psychology. (1992) (18)
The Behavior of organisms : an experimental analysis / B.F. Skinner (1966) (17)
A thinking aid. (1987) (16)
Some responses to the stimulus “Pavlov” (1996) (16)
Enjoy Old Age: A Practical Guide (1997) (15)
The phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior. Contingencies of reinforcement throw light on contingencies of survival in the evolution of behavior. (1966) (15)
Reply to Catania (1984) (14)
Review of Hull's Principles of Behavior1. (1989) (14)
Representations and misrepresentations (1984) (13)
The Progressive Increase in the Geotropic Response of the Ant Aphaenogaster (1930) (13)
Cognitive Neuroscience Review and the Study of Memory (1998) (13)
Animal Research in the Pharmacotherapy of Mental Illness. (1959) (11)
Charles B. Ferster-A personal memoir. (1981) (11)
Reply to Harnad (1984) (11)
Some Quantitative Properties of Anxiety (with W. K. Estes). (1961) (11)
Skinner for the classroom : selected papers (1982) (10)
Phylogenic and ontogenic environments (1984) (10)
Genes and behavior. (1988) (9)
A Paradoxical Color Effect (1932) (9)
Pavlov's influence on psychology in America. (1981) (9)
A method of maintaining an arbitrary degree of hunger. (1940) (9)
A Discrimination Based upon a Change in the Properties of a Stimulus (1935) (8)
Notebooks B.F. Skinner (1982) (8)
Some responses to the stimulus “pavlov” (1966) (8)
REMINISCENCES OF JEAB (1987) (8)
The Species-Specific Behavior of Ethologists (1980) (8)
Technique for reinforcing either of two organisms with a single food magazine. (1962) (7)
A Fable (1988) (7)
Psychology in the Understanding of Mental Disease. (1961) (7)
Comment on Watts's “B. F. Skinner and the Technological Control of Social Behavior” (1975) (7)
A Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior. (1957) (7)
Designing Higher Education. (1974) (6)
Signs and countersigns (1988) (6)
Reply to Dr. Yacorzynski. (1943) (6)
Contingencies and rules (1984) (5)
Some Implications of Making Education More Efficient (1973) (5)
Preface to the behavior of organisms. (1988) (5)
TEACHING SCIENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL--WHAT IS WRONG. PAPER PRESENTED AT THE AAAS MEETING, DECEMBER 29, 1967, NEW YORK. (1967) (5)
On the Inheritance of Maze Behavior (1930) (5)
Review of The organism: A holistic approach to biology derived from pathological data in man. (1940) (5)
Differential reinforcement of rate. (1957) (4)
War, Peace, and Behavior Analysis: Some Comments (1988) (4)
The Control of Human Behavior (abstract). (1961) (4)
Reply to thouless (1963) (4)
Laurence D. Smith. Behaviorism and logical positivism: A reassessment of the alliance. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986. 416 pp. $42.50 (cloth) (1987) (4)
AN ANALYSIS OF THE BEHAVIORAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN SELF-INSTRUCTION WITH TEACHING MACHINES. (1964) (4)
Innovation in science teaching. (1981) (4)
Psychology of English. (1941) (3)
Learning and Intelligence: Conversations with Skinner and Wheeler (1995) (3)
The technology of teaching / B.F. Skinner (1968) (3)
It won't wash! (1977) (2)
Skinner on Theory. (1964) (2)
Hull's Principles of Behavior. (1961) (2)
>Operant Behavior< American Psychologist, Vol. 18 (1963), pp. 503-515 (1964) (2)
Review of The human use of human beings. (1951) (2)
What price Utopia (1964) (2)
Comment on Rogers. (1974) (2)
Particulars of my life / B.F. Skinner (1976) (2)
Logical and Scientific Verbal Behavior. (1957) (1)
CantheExperimental Analysis ofBehavior Rescue Psychology (1983) (1)
Private Events in a Natural Science (1953) (1)
Walden Two, with a New Introduction by the Author (1977) (1)
Edwin Garrigues Boring (1886-1968). (1968) (1)
The Analysis of Behavior (excerpts). (1961) (1)
Verbal Behavior Under the Control of Verbal Stimuli. (1957) (1)
Grammar and Syntax as Autoclitic Processes. (1957) (0)
Special Conditions Affecting Stimulus Control. (1957) (0)
The Analysis of Behavior@@@The Learning Process@@@Conditioning and Learning (1962) (0)
Reference Citations inB.F.Skinner's Verbal Behavior EdwardK.Morris andSusanSchneider University ofKansas (1986) (0)
A teacher of verbal behavior (1985) (0)
Skinner at Seventy-Five@@@Reflections on Behavorism and Society (1979) (0)
Comparative Cognition 2 – Spatial and Social Knowledge and Reasoning More Additional References (not Normally for Further Reading) If Presented with Sample Mm, Choose 'mm' Not 'no' (0)
Self-Strengthening of Verbal Behavior. (1957) (0)
Special Conditions of Self-Editing. (1957) (0)
Interviews with B. F. Skinner (1967) (0)
Chapter Ii Review of Related Literature Conation: a Conceptual Framework Table 1 Stages of Striving/conation Cycle Steps and Stages of Willing Compared Stages of Striving Steps in the Conation Cycle Stages of Willing Conative Domain (0)
Excerpts from “the phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior” (1996) (0)
Composition and Its Effects. (1957) (0)
Neo-Behaviorism and Learning Theory (1981) (0)
Reply to Professor Koch. (1977) (0)
Review of Biological Time. (1938) (0)
SOME THOUGHTSABOUT THE FUTURE (1986) (0)
Pavlov's influence on psychology in America. (1981) (0)
New Combinations of Fragmentary Responses. (1957) (0)
The Flight of the Killer Pigeons (1996) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
Development of Methods of Preparing Materials for Teaching Machines: Professional Paper 29-68. (1968) (0)
The Verbal Operant as a Unit of Analysis. (1957) (0)
The Pigeon . Wendell Mitchell Levi. Levi Publishing Company, Sumter, S.C., 1957. xxvii+667 pp. Illus. $20. (1958) (0)
Life and the Spreading Sea (1974) (0)
The shape of infinity (1999) (0)
3. Selections from Science and Human Behavior (1980) (0)
THE EVOLUTIONOF VERBALBEHAVIOR (1986) (0)
The shaping of phylogenic behavior. (1975) (0)
Response : Humanism in Teaching Science (1968) (0)
[Various responses to the "Pavlov" stimulus]. (1999) (0)
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations (1981) (0)

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