Editing Verbal Behavior (section)

== Research ==
Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior drew heavily on methods of literary analysis.<ref>Skinner, B.F. (1957). ''Verbal Behavior''.</ref> This tradition has continued.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Grant L.K. |year=2005 |title=Story Analysis and the Literary Method |journal=The Behavior Analyst Today |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=178–85 |doi=10.1037/h0100069}}</ref> The book ''Verbal Behavior'' is almost entirely theoretical, involving little experimental research in the work itself.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Michael, J. |title=Verbal Behavior |journal=J Exp Anal Behav |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=363–76 |date= November 1984 |pmid=16812395 |pmc=1348108 |doi=10.1901/jeab.1984.42-363}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Burrhus Frederick |last=Skinner |title=Verbal Behavior |author-link=B.F. Skinner |place=Acton, MA |publisher=Copley Publishing Group |year=1957 |isbn=978-1-58390-021-5 |page=11}}</ref><ref>It is notable that Skinner did do Verbal Behavior related research, for example the statistical analysis of alliteration in Shakespeare, as well as his work with the "Verbal Summator" prior to the publication of ''Verbal Behavior''. However, he opted to remove most of the research, he says, because it made the book "unbalanced". This research was also primarily structural in nature, and owed more to Skinner's history as a college English major than it did to his later functional analysis of behavior.</ref> Many research papers and applied extensions based on ''Verbal Behavior'' have been done since its publication.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Oah |first=S. |author2=Dickinson |first2=A. M. |author-link2=Alyce M. Dickinson |name-list-style=amp |year=1989 |title=A review of empirical studies of verbal behavior |journal=The Analysis of Verbal Behavior |volume=7 |pages=53–68 |doi=10.1007/BF03392837 |pmc=2748505 |pmid=22477586}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Sundberg, M.L. |title=301 research topics from Skinner's book Verbal Behavior |journal=The Analysis of Verbal Behavior |volume=9 |pages=81–96 |year= 1991 |pmc=2748536 |pmid=22477631|doi=10.1007/BF03392862 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Sautter, R.A.  |author2=LeBlanc, L.A.  |name-list-style=amp |title=Empirical applications of Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior with humans |journal=The Analysis of Verbal Behavior |volume=22 |pages=25–48 |year=2006 |issue=1 |pmc=2774593 |pmid=22477342|doi=10.1007/BF03393025  }}</ref>