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Title	Behavioral Science in the Crosshairs: The FBI File on B. F. Skinner

Creator	Wyatt, W. Joseph

Description	Behavioral science and its practitioners have come under government scrutiny for a variety of reasons, such as when politicians take issue with grant funding or when a leading behavioral scientist puts forth controversial ideas or becomes actively involved in social concerns. One such case is that of B. F. Skinner. The FBI file on B. F. Skinner was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Skinner was aware that the FBI monitored his activities. The file reveals extensive checking on Skinner's contacts with a Chinese scientist and on his protests against nuclear testing and the Vietnam War. He had lent his name to newspaper (protest) advertisements that were signed by dozens of scientists. Both the government's cold-war anticommunist sentiment and the esteem in which Skinner was held by colleagues are reflected in the heavily censored pages contained in the file.

Publisher	University of Illinois at Chicago Library

Date	2000-12-16

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/128 10.5210/bsi.v10i0.128

Source	Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 10 (2000); 101-109 1064-9506

Language	eng

Relation	https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/128/177

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