Julie Skinner Vargas (born 1938)[1] is an American educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior.
[3] Vargas received a bachelor's degree in music from Radcliffe College, a master's degree in music education from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Pittsburgh.
She was a faculty member at West Virginia University, where she and her husband, Ernest A. Vargas, taught for more than 30 years in the College of Human Resources and Education.
It was, and is, a science, differing from psychology in its dependent variables, its measurement system, its procedures, and its analytic framework".
Her more recent publications have been articles, including two 2005 entries on B. F. Skinner in volumes I and III of The Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching.