Montrose Wolf

Montrose Madison Wolf (1935-2004) was an American psychologist and a founder of applied behavior analysis, the discipline of using behavioral principles to solve real human problems. Born in Houston and educated at the University of Houston, he spent his career at the University of Kansas, where he studied the effect of adult attention on children and invented the time-out procedure. His obituary credits him with first engineering a token economy into a working motivational system and with inventing the Good Behavior Game, a classroom method in which teams of pupils earn rewards for orderly behavior. He also led the research that produced the Teaching-Family Model, used in residential group homes for young people, which spread to organizations such as Girls and Boys Town. He died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2004.