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"You can be a behaviorist and still talk about the mind – as long as you don't put it into a person's head": An interview with Howard Rachlin1.

  • Published In: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2023, v. 119, n. 1. P. 9 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Simon, Carsta 3 of 3

Abstract

When Herrnstein put two levers in the box (or rather two buttons since he was studying the pecking of pigeons rather than the lever-pressing of rats) and began to formulate the matching law, he knew very well that he was following the path of Tolman. "You can be a behaviorist and still talk about the mind - as long as you don't put it into a person's head": An interview with Howard Rachlin1 Dr. Howard Rachlin was Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University. We took this term from Tolman (although our position was much more Skinnerian than Tolmanian) because it was deviating from Skinner in the direction of Tolman. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 2023/01, Vol. 119, Issue 1, p9
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0022-5002
  • DOI:10.1002/jeab.782
  • Accession Number:161473837
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