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Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control

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Transcript

  1. Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June

    2018

  2. Programming and Social Engineering Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June 2018

  3. Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June 2018 Who the F**k does the

    Tech Industry Think It Is

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

    Tech4Good, June 2018

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

    — The New York Times Magazine, 1968

  6. “The Skinner Box”

  7. The pigeon-guided missile

  8. None

  9. “Teaching machines”

  10. Operant conditioning and the “War on Poverty”

  11. None

  12. Persuasive technologies