![]() That being said, if you want an intellectual exploration of a Utopian world ruled by behaviorism, this book may be for you. Walden Two contains no plot, clumsy writing, and characters that serve as nothing more than mouthpieces for B.F. ![]() I recommend it.Īnd, you know, if you were bored reading it, it's too bad you don't live in Walden Two, where you could just say, "This is boring to me," and everyone would be totally cool with that. Yes, Skinner's book advocates for behaviorist approaches to fixing society's problems, and it's got some air crib usage in it, if that's what you signed up for. I mean, ok, it's not exactly a rollicking romp of a book - it's a conversational back -and-forth that celebrates living in a way that uses pragmatic and scientifically-grounded solutions to the problems of living in a society instead of adhering to a set of principles that are unlikely to result in a life that produces maximum happiness and satisfaction. Skinner has this great way of describing when conversation is awkward, or when people misunderstand each other in little ways, or when a person's ego is showing. It's even funny in the little ways the narrator mocks the hero Fraser as well as the daft intellectual Castle. I have to say that I find it funny how often the user reviews call Walden Two "boring." I get as bored reading a philosophical treatise as the next person, but Walden Two is actually easy and engaging to read. He was a prolific author, publishing 21 books and 180 articles. In a recent survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology – the experimental analysis of behavior. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. Burrhus Frederic Skinner was a highly influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet.
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