Burrhus Frederic Skinner having received his Doctorate in the year 1931, stayed at Harvard to do his research. In the year 1945 working at the Indiana University, he became the chairman of the Psychology department. In the year 1948 he was suggested to return to Harvard, he agreed and stayed there for the rest of his days. Skinner was a quite active man; he did research, guided many Doctoral candidates and at the same time wrote many books. Skinner was not a very good writer of fiction as well as poetry, but he became one of the most famous Psychology writers. He wrote a well-known book Walden II that is a fictional estimate of a community run by behavioral principles.

Skinner maintained that learning appeared as a consequence of the organism responding to, its environment, and created the term operant conditioning to depict this phenomenon. He did vast research with animals, especially with rats and pigeons. He is the inventor of the well-known Skinner box designed for a rat to learn to push a lever so as to get food. He made pioneering work connected with experimental psychology and supported behaviorism which consists in seeking to comprehend behavior as a function of reinforcement. Him also belongs a number of disputable work, in which suggested the prevalent application of psychological behavior modification methods, so as to enhance society and enlarge human happiness. Skinner belongs one of very interesting experiments in which he studied the creation of superstition. In this experiment he used one of his favorite test animals, the pigeon. This experiment showed that pigeons connected the delivery of food with some chance actions they had been doing as the food was delivered, and that they afterward proceeded to do the same actions.

Skinner devoted 60 years of his life to the researches in the field of psychology and became one of the most celebrated psychologists. At the age of 86 B.F. Skinner died of leukemia, it was on the 18th of August in 1990.