The science of behavior offers us a different way of understanding our life choices, big or small. Human behavior can be better understood through the contexts that surround it rather than through some mysterious inner entity or parts within us that divide people into the good and the bad, the extolled and the condemned.
Tag: Skinner
Thoreau and Skinner on Creating a Better World
Thoreau tried to build a better life by leaving society.
Skinner imagined building a better society so people wouldn’t have to leave it.
Sometimes the problem is not simply the person,
but the context in which the person is trying to live.