The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

As a doctoral student and professor of psychology, John Watson studied the behavior of animals. He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats going ...

My recent article, "Behavior Modification Is Everywhere: Why Education Can’t Afford to Pretend Otherwise," sparked thoughtful, even passionate, comments from readers. These responses highlighted ...

Have you ever wondered exactly why people do what they do? According to a school of thought known as behaviorism, it all ...

The history of psychology is full of disputes among various "-isms": behaviorism, cognitivism, functionalism, and many others. Nevertheless, all are unanimous in their opposition to one other -ism: ...

Behavior and Philosophy, Vol. 49 (2021), pp. 88-90 (3 pages) This paper is a reply to Eric Charles and Nick Thompson's critique of my 2017 paper, "Methodological behaviorism, causal chains, and causal ...

Get the rat to the cheese. That's really what each U.S. political party is promising to do if its candidate is elected President. The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker. The cheese ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

The cognitive revolution officially began in the 1950s and 1960s, marked by the publication of influential books and articles ...