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 ...

Roy and Ray seemed disarmingly normal, and that was news. For they had spent the first 18 months of their lives in a “Skinner baby box.” Devised by Harvard Psychologist Burrhus F. Skinner ...

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 ...

This week marks the birthday of B.F. Skinner. The celebrated and sometimes controversial American behavioral scientist, who was born in Susquehanna, Penn. on March 20, 1904 and spent much of his ...