Julie Vargas
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1938 (age 87–88)
Columbia University (MA)
University of Pittsburgh (PhD)
Julie S. Vargas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Julie Skinner 1938 (age 87–88) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Education | Radcliffe College (BA) Columbia University (MA) University of Pittsburgh (PhD) |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Employer | B. F. Skinner Foundation |
| Notable work | West Virginia University |
| Title | President |
| Spouse | Ernest A. Vargas |
Julie Skinner Vargas (born 1938)[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]
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.
