professor daniel n. robinson

B.F. Skinner and the Engineering of Society 

Comprehanding the World of Experience — Cognition Summarized 

Watson and American Behaviorism 

Rationality, Problem-Solving, and Brain Function 

Violence and the Brain 

Genetic Psychology and "The Bell Curve" 

The Emergence of Modern Science — Locke's “newtonian” Theory of Mind 

Signal-Detection Theory 

Freud, Breuer, and the Theory of Repression 

The Integration of Experience 

Knowledge, Thinking, and Understanding 

Perception and Attention 

Pavlov and the Conditioned Reflex 

Language 

Sensation and Perception 

Psychobiology — Nineteenth-Century Foundations 

Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive Development 

Perceptual Constancies and Illusions 

Altruism 

Is Artificial Intelligence "Intelligent"? 

Ancient Foundations — Greek Philosophers and Physicians 

Obedience and Conformity 

The "Emotional" Brain — The Limbic System 

Artificial Intelligence and the Neurocognitive Revolution 

Personality Traits and the Problem of Assessment 

What Makes an Event "Social"? 

Hearing 

Cognitive "Maps," "Insight," and Animal Minds 

Learning and Memory: Associationism — Aristotle to Ebbinghaus 

On Being Sane in Insane Places 

Critiques of Freudian Theory 

Memory Revisited — Mnemonics and Context 

Socialization — Darwin and the "Natural History" Method 

Freud's Debt to Darwin 

Intelligence 

Psychological and Biological Determinism 

The Visual Process 

Civic Development — Psychology, the Person, and the Polis 

Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development 

Prejudice and Self-Deception 

Language and the Brain 

What Is "Personality"? 

Three Enduring “isms” — Empiricism, Rationalism, Materialism 

Minds Possessed — Witchery and the Search for Explanations 

Defining the Subject 

The Development of Moral Reasoning 

B.F. Skinner and Modern Behaviorism