Burrhus Frederic Skinner

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5 total works indexed

1. Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation

   · 2013 · cited 11,740x

2. The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger Syndrome/High-Functioning Autism, Males and Females, Scientists and Mathematicians

   · 2001 · cited 5,458x

3. Verbal behavior.

   · 1957 · cited 4,671x

4. Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults

   · 2009 · cited 3,071x

5. Schedules of reinforcement.

   · 1957 · cited 3,008x

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Quotes

• “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”
• “Man's power appears to have increased out of all proportion to his wisdom. He has never been in a better position to build a healthy, happy, and productive world; yet things have perhaps never seemed so black.”
• “The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called "conditioning". In operant conditioning we "strengthen" an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.”
• “Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.”
• “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
• “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”

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