Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

Operant conditioning (behavior modification) is a metaphor for accountability. B.F. Skinner was an experimental psychologist at the University of Minnesota in the 1940s whose name and work came to ...

An unexpected WW2 experiment by behaviourist B F Skinner proved that pigeons could be used for missile guidance.

She was so successful at training dolphins that she began applying the same techniques to other creatures, including dogs — ...

Marielle Thompson of Whistler, B.C., claimed gold, Courtney Hoffos of Windermere, B.C., won bronze and India Sherret of ...

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An unexpected WWII experiment by behaviorist B F Skinner proved that pigeons could be used for missile guidance.

The lone Canadian and last skier to go down the mountain, Cassidy Gray of Invermere, B.C. finished in 25th place in the women's downhill race, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — New psychology research indicates that multilingual children may have enhanced executive function and perspective taking ... Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility Can Create ...

Progress in therapy doesn’t mean always feeling good. Sometimes, it means finally feeling everything. Experiencing pain in ...

The Structured Clinical Interviews for DSM-IV Diagnoses (SCID-I) were conducted in person by either the research coordinator trained in the approach or the principal investigator (MH; a psychologist ...

My educational training includes Masters in Counseling, MSW, and PhD Spiritual Psychology. For over two decades I have passionately focused on working with anxiety and depression, learning ...