| Description | Portrait print of Professor B.F.Skinner (1904-1990), American behaviorist, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
A sound recording of Professor B.F.Skinner's lecture 'Behaviour and Psychotherapy' given at Churchill College, Spring 1969 is available from the BPS Audio Visual Archives, reference AUD/001/27..
A VHS video recording of Professor B.F.Skinner's talk as Distinguished Visitor on 'Cognitive Science and Behaviorism' at the British Psychological Society (BPS) Annual Conference in Swansea 1985 is available from the BPS Audio Visual Archives, reference PHO/002/01/12..
Photographer: Unknown |
| AdminHistory | Date of Birth: 20/03/1904
Place of Birth: Susquehanna,: Pennsylvania USA
Date of Death: 18/08/1990
University Qualifications and Professional Training:
BA English, Hamilton College, New York
MA Psychology, Harvard 1930
PhD, Harvard 1931,
Research, Harvard until 1936
Professional career:
Lecturer, University of Minnesota 1936
Chair of the psychology department at Indiana University, 1945
Research Harvard, 1948
Retired as Harvard's Professor of Psychology, 1974
Awards:
Warren Medal Award, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 1942
Humanist of the Year Award, American Humanist Association, 1972
National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968
Gold Medal of the American Psychological Foundation, 1971
Citation for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology, 1990
Honorary Fellow BPS 1962
President of the Pavlovian Society, 1966 |
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