So take your hands out of your pockets, get your face adjusted

[johnnygoodtimes]

Bleeerg. I feel like shit. I fell alseep early last night, in my clothes and everything, and managed to not look at my clock again until five a.m. At which point I got myself up even though I was still tired, and I'm still tired now, and I don't really feel much of anything except oncoming depression and crappiness

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[kahlan_amnell]

bbl, gonna email my psychology teacher about how B.F. Skinner raised his daughter in a box, lol parenting fail.

Actually, if you read what Skinner wrote about how he and his wife raised their daughter, and what his daughter wrote about it once she grew up, it wasn't as bad as it sounds. The "box" was a substitute for a crib, and she wasn't always in there. From the description Skinner wrote of it, it sounds pretty comfortable actually. I wish I had the articles I read about that in my History of Psychology class so I could post more details.

[johnnygoodtimes]

I know Skinner's "Aircrib" wasn't the same as his rat-testing Skinner box (now I know, anyway). Yesterday I was talking to my psych. teacher and, since we had just covered behaviorism and learning, asked her if there was psychologist who raised his kid in box. My mom, who got her BA in psych. about ten years ago, told me this but I wasn't sure how much there was to it, but my teacher had never heard of such a thing. So my mom pulled the Skinner excerpt from her psychology book, and basically all it said was Skinner made a "baby-tender," raised his daughter in it, some critics say it made her neurotic but Skinner always denied that

[kahlan_amnell]

Ah, ok. Glad that the misconception was eliminated. There are a lot of misconceptions about famous psychologists of the past.

(Nope, not tl;dr.)