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Archive for November 2, 2014

American psychologist B. F. Skinner kept his baby in a box; ca. 1959

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Essentially he WAS a psychologist, but also an inventor. His “Aircrib” shown in the photo was essentially just a crib. The baby was still removed and got interaction, but nap time and night time she was put inside an environmentally controlled crib.

(I was not a lab rat – Deborah Skinner Buzan)


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Wilf Batty with the last thylacine that was killed in the wild; ca. 1930

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