Ever since then, I’ve wondered: What was the Skinner Box? And were babies really raised in boxes? Top image: Air Crib photo by Nicholas Hess and Tracy Woodard. Well, sort of. It turns out that ...

Outraged letter-writers protested that a child should not be "kept in a box" and "subjected to experiments like an animal." Over the years the details about Skinner's baby tender (which was ...

Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images In 1947, baby John Gray Jr. plays in his Skinner box, a crib with temperature controls and a glass barrier that psychologist B. F. Skinner developed to ...

Who needs a skinner box when you’ve the most high tech baby jails in the world? Cencio has an impressive new crib that can pretty much raise your child for you. Here are the reasons why someone ...

3. The Air-Crib. Skinner tried to mechanize childcare through the use of this “baby box,” which maintained the temperature of a child’s environment. Humorously known as an “heir ...