Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology

About the Author

About the Author John A. Mills started his working life as a geologist and then became a psychologist. He did his doctoral work at the University of Cape Town. After teaching at Cape Town for a year he took up a post at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His early research was in verbal learning, psycholinguistics, comparative psychology, and animal psychol­ ogy. For the past twenty years his research has been in historical psychol­ ogy, concentrating on eighteenth­century Scottish philosophy and on be­ haviorism. He is a member of the Cheiron Society, was a founding mem­ ber of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Theory and Psychology. He now lives on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada. 246 ...