In the 1950s, his basic research on operant human behavior spread like wildfire. Initially, he sold approximately 700 copies a year, twice the number of The Behavior of Organisms, the first book he wrote about science. Mainly regarding questions about social justice and human well-being. Walden Two was Skinner’s first novel and contained a lot of his scientific knowledge and philosophy of life. When his friend asked him what they should do instead, Skinner replied, “They should experiment, they should explore new ways of life, just as people in 19th-century communities did”. The idea for this book came up in the spring of 1945 during a conversation with a friend.īoth reflected on what young men would do when the war was over. Skinner wrote The Sun Is But a Morning Star, a utopian novel he finally published in 1948 under the name Walden Two.
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