behaviorism
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Skinner and his pigeons, into behaviorism — a school of thought that considered behavior a Rube Goldberg machine of stimulus and response governed by reflex, disregarding interior mental states and emotional response.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
Social cooling, coined by Tijmen Schep, is behaviorism 101.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2022
He developed psychological behaviorism, which included elements such as emotion and personality, to “behaviorize psychology and to psychologize behaviorism,” as his view is often explained.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2021
I reiterated my why-Freud-isn’t-dead argument: yes, psychoanalysis is profoundly flawed, but so are all other paradigms for explaining and treating the mind, from behaviorism to psychopharmacology.
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2019
Much of the focus in psychology at the time was around behaviorism.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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