Unlock the Power of Human Behavior with B.F. Skinner's Science and Human Behavior

Camisha Matthews: amazing quality skinner and his behavior work is impeccable

United States on Nov 24, 2022

Saúl Pérez: El producto llegó en buen estado. Es increíble, 100% recomendado, como todas las obras de Skinner.

Spain on Dec 18, 2021

Calebe Ferraz: Muito bom, linguagem compreensível para nós brasileiros que temos o inglês como segunda língua.

Brazil on Apr 14, 2021

Dan Van Damme: Difficult but well worth it!

Canada on Feb 04, 2021

Logan P.: This is a must read for all generations. If you want to shape human behavior or want a deeper dive into what BF Skinner actually says-this is the book! I share this with all of my colleagues or future BCBAs.

United States on Jan 20, 2021

Dolores A.: Book came in great condition. A little dense to read, but if your into behavior analysis you will find it very interesting. I bought it for class and was interesting to see things from a philosophical perspective.

United States on Oct 21, 2020

fabrizio: Being a student of psychology I found very difficult to find some modern literature on behaviorism. Behaviorism has in fact almost disappeared from mainstream psychology which now bubbles with cognitive neuroscience and so on. Being quite difficult to retrieve some basic theory text on behaviorism I then reverted to the original book of Skinner who probably is the most influential divulgation test ever written on behaviorism. Basic aspects of theory of operant behavior are address with some short passage on the ideas developed by Thorndike on learning which actually constituted the basic of operating learning. The powerfullness of behaviorism as a all-in-one theory of human behavior you get reading this book is astounding. I was personally impressed by how our knowledge of behavior was so advanced in 1953 and under certain aspects how little has been made subsequently on the practical plan (a lot of theory and experiments thought). The most impressive feature of this book and the one I had more difficulty to digest as a psychologist was the way in which Skinner convincely rid off every reference to thoughts, will and emotion in his theory of behavior. I could understand only with...

Italy on Mar 23, 2020

sergio liera aguilar: Lo compre con la intención de complementar mi formación como psicólogo, la cual fue deficiente en mi opinión, dada la orientación de dicha licenciatura (psicoanálisis). Realmente considero que leer esta obra es una tarea obligatoria para cualquier psicólogo o persona interesada en el comportamiento humano. Los planteamientos de Skinner aun siguen dando frutos a intervenciones terapéuticas importante como: la Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT), la Terapia Analítico Funcional (FAP) y es gran parte de la Terapia Dialéctico Conductual, sin mencionar que el aspecto conductual se encuentra prácticamente en todas las intervenciones terapéuticas que cuentan con evidencia científica de su efectividad y mecanismos de cambio. En pocas palabras, si deseas entender el comportamiento humano y animal y de igual forma comprender las bases teóricas de los tratamientos efectivos, este es el libro para ti.

Mexico on Aug 09, 2017

Marshall L. Dermer: This is Fred Skinner's most accessible book. It ambitiously uses one set of principles to address significant aspects of human and social behavior (p. 334), including events that occur beneath our skins such as dreaming and talking to ourselves ( p. 257).

Basically Skinner was interested in all the ways we can arrange the environment to ethically produce and maintain behavior. Consider, the simple case of teaching your dog to sit. You could say “sit,” gently push your dog’s rear down, then say “good,” and give your dog some food. Eventually your dog will sit on command provided sitting sometimes produces food.

If asked to explain the dog’s behavior, Skinner would focus on what was done (in the environment) that produced sitting. This would include your saying “sit,” next gently pushing your dog’s rear down, your saying “good,” and then feeding your dog. Actually, more environmental events ought to be specified such as your dog being food deprived and distractive stimuli being absent.

But most people have a very hard time using relations between the environment and behavior to explain behavior. When asked to explain why the dog sat after...

United States on Feb 17, 2017

Memphis Reviewer: I am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) so I am probably biased. Now that that is spelled out, I will write this message: "Science and Human Behavior" is an awesome and enlightening read!

Behaviorism (Behavior Analysis) is a growing field. As more people get comfortable with the idea of a true science of human behavior, we will make strides in predicting and controlling human behavior. In the future, the controllers or nurturers (parents, teachers, coaches, military leaders, politicians, bosses, etc.) will have an evidenced-based science of human behavior to change people in positive ways. Effective checks can also be developed to control the new science of human behavior as B.F. Skinner recommends. This science and knowledge sure beats the haphazard techniques politicians, bosses, etc. use to influence people to do the right behaviors in order to achieve a common goal.

Perhaps some day the nurtured (controlled) and nurturers (controllers) will work together to make the world a better place. People surrender themselves to the controllers with employment, military service, sports team participation and so forth. Why not study those controls...

United States on Feb 01, 2007