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Burrhus Frederic Skinner, better known as B.F. Skinner, is a highly regarded American psychologist and theorist best known for his contribution toward the philosophy of behaviorism. B.F. Skinner was born on March 20, 1904, in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. His father was a lawyer and his mother stayed home to care for Skinner and his younger brother. As a student at Hamilton College, Skinner developed a passion for writing. He tried to become a professional writer after graduating in 1926, but had no success. Two years later, Skinner decided to pursue a new endeavor. He enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology. Skinner boasted that his own philosophies were "radical" and argued that free will was an illusion and that all human action is the result of conditioning. Skinner was one of the most influential of American psychologists of his area of study, he developed the theory of Operant Conditioning, the idea that behavior is determined by its consequences, whether they're reinforcements or punishments, which will determine if that behavior will repeat or cease. Skinner came to the conclusion that some form of reinforcement was crucial in learning new behaviors. After finishing his doctorate degree and working as a researcher at Harvard, Skinner published the results of his operant conditioning experiments in The Behavior of Organisms in 1938. B.F. Skinner is also known for having written books on his studies throughout the years such as About Behaviorism, Science and Human Behavior, Verbal Behavior, and many more books on issues of science as well as social issues and philosophy.