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B. F. Skinner
1904 – 1990 • American • Psychologist
41
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Showing 41 quotesBehavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.— B. F. Skinner
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.— B. F. Skinner