Problem:
Kinner wastes no opportunity to dismiss personality from the realm of science. In Chapter 1 of Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), he mocks the notion of "disturbed personality" (pp. 8 and 16) and flatly states: "We do not need to try to discover what personalities, states of mind, feelings, traits of character ... or the other perquisites of autonomous man really are in order to get on with scientific analysis of behavior" (p. 15). Yet, in that book, and in Walden Two (1948), he subtly, and perhaps unwittingly, indicates that people do have personalities, at least in the sense of showing individual differences in behaviors that are relatively constant across time and situations. Sometimes he even referred to personality in a way that assumed its existence (Benjamin & Nielsen-Gammon, 1999, p. 162). In Walden Two, the person one might think would be given even less personality than Prof. Burris is "blessed" with a rich and full repertoire of behaviors that distinguish him from others. Frazier, the founder and leader of Walden Two, is an impulsive individual whose temper flares on many occasions. He shows a great deal of self-confidence, but seems rather vulnerable underneath all the bravado. At one point, Frazier bursts forth: Need Assignment Help?