Pigeons,Operant Conditioning,and Social ControlAudrey WattersTech4Good, June 2018
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B. F. Skinner: A Historyof “Behavioral Design”Audrey WattersTech4Good, June 2018
“Skinner Agrees He Is the Most Important Influence in Psychology” — The New York Times Magazine, 1968
“The Skinner Box”
The pigeon-guided missile
“Teaching machines”
Operant conditioning and the “War on Poverty”
Persuasive technologies