As B. F. and Yvonne Skinner approached having a second child, Yvonne, “knowing what she was in for,” dreaded “the drudgery of the first year.” Skinner himself purportedly rose to the challenge. In 1945, he reported in Ladies’ Home Journal about the experience of designing the air crib, in an article appropriately titled “Baby in a Box,” again an implicit denaturing of maternal care (a subsequent profile appeared in LIFE magazine in 1947).
Their life and stories are quite fascinating to general public let alone to psychology.
How did Skinner’s wife, Yvonne, contribute to the design of the air crib?
Their life and stories are quite fascinating to general public let alone to psychology.
How did Skinner’s wife, Yvonne, contribute to the design of the air crib?
Skinner et al with the intresting experiments is hardly a pass.