Habits Quote by Gregory Berns

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar,…

— Jess Lair

If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in…

— Konrad Lorenz

“In 1963, Skinner’s Harvard colleagues Charles Catania and David Cutts put humans through the pigeon paces by instructing each of twenty-six undergraduate subjects to…

— Michael Shermer

“Skinnerian conditioning, crossed with social pressure, is now an ever-present invisible hand that tries to manipulate all of your actions on the internet. This…

— Charles Seife

“Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we’re not animal trainers!” “Yes,”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“When I took Psychology 101, the professor taught us about random reinforcement. Put three groups of rats in three separate cages, each equipped with…

— Jennifer Weiner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

— B. F. Skinner

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

— Morrie Schwartz

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is…

— Celia Green

Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs…

— J. P. Guilford

“Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine may be the most directly related to the neural…

— Michael Shermer