• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. behaviorism
2. environment
3. reinforce
4. controls
5. changing
6. behavior

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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone. by : B. F. Skinner

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