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Non-punitive Society     (142 KB PDF)

Commemorative lecture given by B.F. Skinner after receiving an honorary doctorate at Keio University, Japan. September 25, 1979.

             Reprinted in the Japanese Journal of Behavior                        Analysis in 1990.

Special thanks to T. Piskura for assisting in     transcribing    this article into the digital format.

New Methods and New Aims in Teaching

(41 KB PDF)
New Scientist 122 (1964)
Courtesy of New Scientist

Special Article: Russia, 1961 (191 KB PDF)

            Prof. Ramón Bayés visited BF Skinner and received from him an exemplar of Russia 1961 as a present
When the Spanish Journal of Psychology organized the BF. SKINNER centennial celebration in 2004, Ramón Bayés donated his exemplar to the SJP archives
We understood the historical relevance of the document and asked the BF SKINNER foundation its permission for publication
Adriana Dergam (our expert in Soviet psychology) and Javier Bandres wrote the biographical notes.
In 2006 the issue of the SJP including RUSSIA 1961 was presented in Universidad Complutense with a talk by Julie Vargas.

Teaching Machines        (130 KB PDF)

            Science 128:969-977 (1958)