First publication rights are held by the Los Angeles Times. The mind exists Donald A. Norman University of California, San Diego Poor Fred Skinner. He lived his life rejecting the mind. He only believed in things he could observe. To B. F. Skinner, the mind was like those imaginary demons that frighten children in the dark, demons that must be scourged from psychology for it to proceed as a science.
Science proceeds in strange ways.
It isn't really the orderly, logical process that it is advertised to be. In the long run, Science overcomes its mistakes and advances toward comprehensive understanding. But along the way, it gets distracted by personalities, by whims, and by feuds that break out among the human beings who are also scientists. B. F. Skinner was a great scientist, but he disrupted the systematic development of psychology. Skinner was a charismatic fellow, and his powerful experimental procedures attracted a hearty band of followers.