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...ruling from the higher court reverses a decision last October by Federal District Court Judge Walter J. Skinner '48, who threw out the case because a state agency charged with looking into such cases had not finished its administrative proceedings before a 300-day deadline expired...
...Skinner, the 81-year-old Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus, is known as a radical behaviorist who rebelled against the hypothetical approach to the science of behavior. His experimental approach led to his development of what came to be known as the "Skinner Box," a controlled environment that allowed him to record behavioral patterns...
...Skinner, who retired in 1974, is considered one of the most controversial figures in the field of psychology both for his experimental methods and for his insistence that psychology can be applied to a wide range of social problems, including education, linguistics, and social psychology...
...Skinner first arrived at Harvard in 1928 where he was awarded an A. M. degree 1930 and his Ph.D in 1931. Avoiding the predominant trends in contemporary Harvard psychology. Skinner later wrote. "I was determined to become a scientific psychologist," according to a recent biography...
...Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Harvard...