Jack Michael's Musings on the 60th Anniversary of Skinner's Verbal Behavior

Barbara E Esch; John W Esch; David C Palmer

doi:10.1007/s40616-017-0078-6

Jack Michael's Musings on the 60th Anniversary of Skinner's Verbal Behavior

Anal Verbal Behav. 2017 Apr 4;33(2):269-274. doi: 10.1007/s40616-017-0078-6. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Authors

Barbara E Esch¹, John W Esch¹, David C Palmer²

Affiliations

¹ Esch Behavior Consultants, LLC, PO Box 20002, Kalamazoo, MI USA.
² 2Smith College, Northampton, MA USA.

Abstract

When the B. F. Skinner Foundation reprinted Skinner's Verbal Behavior in 1992, Jack Michael wrote one of its two forewords, a detailed outline of the book's purpose and scope. On the 60th anniversary of the first publication (1957) of Verbal Behavior, Jack reflects on the book's impact and its importance to the understanding of language from a behavioral perspective.

Keywords: BF Skinner; Jack Michael; Verbal behavior.