John Bascom Wolfe

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John Bascom Wolfe (8 July 1904-5 January 1988) was an American social and behavioural psychologist best known for his study of the use of a token economy on chimpanzees.

[edit] Works

• The Effect of Delayed Reward upon Learning in the White Rat (Baltimore, 1934)
• Some Experimental Tests of 'Reasoning' in White Rats (with S.D.S. Spragg; n.p., 1934
• Effectiveness of Token-rewards for Chimpanzees (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1936)
• An Exploratory Study of Food-storing in Rats (Baltimore, 1939)