At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:
I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials? We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF Skinner? Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the BF stands for in BF Skinner?
I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way. Herrnstein sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein. Stevens went by S.S. Stevens, etc. They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by friends - but they published using initials. Of course, Skinner's friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.
Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to 3 initials. -- J.D. Dougan
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