Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 2: Are We Free to Have a Future? Quote 14

“The individual organism is also affected by consequences. The process evolved through natural selection, but it operates on a very different time scale. It was foreshadowed by philosophies of hedonism and fairly explicitly stated in Thorndike’s Law of Effect. It has been most clearly demonstrated in the experimental analysis of operant conditioning.” (p. 19)