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One of the more con­tro­ver­sial phys­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions of Skinner’s the­o­ries: a con­trolled envi­ron­ment designed to give new­borns and infants more con­trol and auton­omy. Peo­ple called it the “baby in the box.”. You can imag­ine the reaction.

Here’s a good blog post that gives a quick syn­op­sis of the his­tory. And here’s a post from a woman who was raised in a Skin­ner box.

Some­thing I found inter­est­ing: tem­per­a­ture adjust­ment had a big impact on a child’s temperament.