Julie S. Vargas
Born
Julie Skinner

1938 (age 85–86)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
EducationBachelor in music
Master in music education
Ph.D. in educational research
Alma materRadcliffe College
Columbia University
University of Pittsburgh
OccupationAcademic
EmployerB. F. Skinner Foundation
Notable workWest Virginia University
TitlePresident
SpouseErnest A. Vargas
Julie Vargas (2019)

Julie Skinner Vargas (born 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota)[1] is an American educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior.[2]

Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner and is the president of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is an officer of The International Society for Behaviorology.[3]

Biography

Vargas received a bachelor's degree in music from Radcliffe College, a master's degree in music education from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a faculty member at West Virginia University, where she and her husband, Ernest A. Vargas, taught for more than 30 years in the College of Human Resources and Education.

Behaviorology: Skinner's new science

Vargas has written that "What B. F. Skinner began is not an 'approach', 'view', 'discipline', 'field', or 'theory'. It was, and is, a science, differing from psychology in its dependent variables, its measurement system, its procedures, and its analytic framework".[4] She and a number of her colleagues have given Skinner's science the name "behaviorology", which may be defined as the natural science of the behavior of organisms.

Bibliography

Her more recent publications have been articles, including two 2005 entries on B. F. Skinner in volumes I and III of The Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching.[5] with Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2012.

References

  1. ^ Arntzen, Erik (2010). "Interview With Julie S. Vargas" (PDF). European Journal of Behavior Analysis. 11 (2): 199–204. doi:10.1080/15021149.2010.11434343. S2CID 185786929. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  2. ^ Freedman, David H. (June 2012). "The Perfected Self". The Atlantic. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Routledge Education Author of the Month May 2011 – Julie S. Vargas". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  4. ^ Julie S. Vargas, (2004). "Contingencies over B. F. Skinner’s Discovery of Contingencies"[permanent dead link]. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 5, pp. 137-142.
  5. ^ An overview and a preview can be found at Vargas, Julie S. (2013). Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415526807.

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