The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

While he might not be a household name for most people, B.F. Skinner is one of the most important psychologists in history ...

This is the second in my ongoing series of articles trying to provide basic lead ins to behaviorist theory. The first is here. How to Explain Behaviorism, version 2: We are Reflections of our World A ...

Leadership theories debate what makes a good leader. Over the years, many schools of thought have developed that give different explanations about where leaders come from and how they can be ...

One of the questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist. If only the fittest survive, genes ...

The Reinforcement Theory, with its nuanced understanding of human behavior, offers leaders a structured approach to drive desired behaviors, invigorate teams, and sculpt an organizational culture that ...

Behavior is what animals do. It can be defined as the muscular output of an organism or as its externally observable dynamical features (Box 1). The brain is the chief architect, orchestrator and ...