You know when you find out about something and suddenly you realize it's all around you? Like when I found out what the word empirical meant and suddenly it was in every book I read!
Well now that I worked out the link between the behaviourists (and Skinner in particular) and discipline techniques like the ones used by Supernanny (and a lot of schools as well) mainly behaviour modification, Skinner seems to pop up everywere... incredible as he's been dead for over 20 years...
The newest piece of news comes from our lovely coalition government, see link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/11/post_1.html
as it seems that Skinner's ideas have been resurrected to better control us, the idea is that there is no point trusting the British people as we don't really know what's good for us, so why not use a few techniques to "nudge" us into the right direction.
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