Informationen zum Autor Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990)! regarded by many as the most important and influential psychologist since Freud! earned his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University in 1931. Following appointments at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University! he returned to Harvard in 1948. He remained there for the rest of his career! retiring in 1974 as Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology. Klappentext A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition.This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. Zusammenfassung Set in the United States! this title pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.

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Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904 1990), regarded by many as the most important and influential psychologist since Freud, earned his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University in 1931. Following appointments at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University, he returned to Harvard in 1948. He remained there for the rest of his career, retiring in 1974 as Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology.

Klappentext
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition.

This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.

Zusammenfassung
Set in the United States, this title pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.