PSYCHOLOGIST

B. F. Skinner

1904 - 1990

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Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. Skinner developed behavior analysis, especially the philosophy of radical behaviorism, and founded the experimental analysis of behavior, a school of experimental research psychology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of B. F. Skinner has received more than 5,677,182 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). B. F. Skinner is the 23rd most popular psychologist (down from 19th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from United States (down from 200th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Psychologist.

B. F. Skinner is most famous for his operant conditioning, which is a type of behaviorism. This theory is based on the idea that behavior is shaped by its consequences.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, B. F. Skinner ranks 23 out of 235. Before him are John B. Watson, Kurt Lewin, Daniel Kahneman, Irvin D. Yalom, Wilhelm Reich, and Edward Thorndike. After him are Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Gustav Fechner, Karen Horney, Alfred Binet, and Hermann Ebbinghaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, B. F. Skinner ranks 10. Before him are Pablo Neruda, Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Seuss, Umberto II of Italy, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and Jean Gabin. After him are Ève Curie, Johnny Weissmuller, George Gamow, Alexei Kosygin, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and Graham Greene. Among people deceased in 1990, B. F. Skinner ranks 9. Before him are Greta Garbo, Roald Dahl, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Althusser, Alberto Moravia, and Ava Gardner. After him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Paulette Goddard, Sarah Vaughan, Norbert Elias, Lê Đức Thọ, and Sergei Parajanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, B. F. Skinner ranks 294 out of 20,380. Before him are Eli Wallach (1915), Joe Dassin (1938), Lisa Marie Presley (1968), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Jerry Brown (1938), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882). After him are Robert E. Lee (1807), Ronnie James Dio (1942), P. T. Barnum (1810), John Wayne Gacy (1942), John Bardeen (1908), and Sandra Bullock (1964).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, B. F. Skinner ranks 8. Before him are John Dewey (1859), William James (1842), Carl Rogers (1902), John B. Watson (1878), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), and Edward Thorndike (1874). After him are Howard Gardner (1943), Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), Jerome Bruner (1915), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), and Milton H. Erickson (1901).

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