During WWII, psychologist B F Skinner tried to use pigeons to guide missiles towards enemy ships. His study proved it was possible, and it was finally recognised at the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize awards.

Pigeon-guided missiles, rats and pigs breathing through their ... work of American psychologist and former Harvard professor B.F. Skinner, who is being celebrated posthumously.

Puzzled, Skinner and his team repeated the experiments—once, twice, 15 times—and found the same sperm defects. So they bred more rats, and tested more chemicals, including substances that lead ...

The notorious psychologist BF Skinner invented ... The hero of Rat City, John B ­Calhoun, was an American scientist who thought such experiments far too circumscribed to tell us much about ...

Eighty rats were placed in Skinner boxes (the glass-walled enclosures, developed by psychologist B. F. Skinner, widely used in behavioral experiments with animals) and trained to press a green ...

He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats going through a ... In the 1950s and 1960s, B.F. Skinner pursued behaviorism with the view of ...