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Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control

Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control

Audrey Watters

June 15, 2018
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  1. Pigeons,
    Operant Conditioning,
    and Social Control
    Audrey Watters

    Tech4Good, June 2018

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  2. Programming and
    Social Engineering
    Audrey Watters

    Tech4Good, June 2018

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  3. Audrey Watters

    Tech4Good, June 2018
    Who the F**k does the
    Tech Industry Think It Is

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  4. B. F. Skinner: A History
    of “Behavioral Design”
    Audrey Watters

    Tech4Good, June 2018

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  5. “Skinner Agrees He Is the Most Important Influence in Psychology”

    — The New York Times Magazine, 1968

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  6. “The Skinner Box”

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  7. The pigeon-guided missile

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  9. “Teaching machines”

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  10. Operant conditioning and the “War on Poverty”

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  12. Persuasive technologies

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