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“Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind…

— B. F. Skinner

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

— Jerry Fodor

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences…

— John B. Watson

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

— B. F. Skinner

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms…

— Ludwig von Mises

“There is deviant behavior and most of the cases it's maladaptive.”

— Deyth Banger

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

— Alfie Kohn

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held…

— B. F. Skinner

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

— Stephen Covey

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism';…

— Karl Popper

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

— B. F. Skinner