Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 2: Freedom. Quote 14

Post author:B. F. Skinner Foundation
Post published:August 5, 2021
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Man’s struggle for freedom is not due to a will to be free, but to certain behavioral processes characteristic of the human organism, the chief effect of which is the avoidance of or escape from so-called “aversive” features of the environment. (p. 42)

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