Rat Psychology

Putin tipped his hat to Trump at the recent summit in Peking which included today’s Axis powers North Korea, China, Russia and Iran. BF Skinner was the father of rat psychology. The idea that behavior was determined by punishment and reward (in some latter day iterations of this theory rodents have even been given cocaine though none are sent to a disco). Trump fits the CBT model perfectly. No one could be deemed stupid who engineered the takeover of the Supreme Court and the Fed. Still everyone has an Achilles heel and Trump’s is reward. He is just like one of Skinner’s rats on a treadmill. Even though the United States’ would-be adversaries are plotting to take over the world, the former KGB agent knows throwing the president a bone will do the job, diplomatically speaking.

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