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Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control
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Audrey Watters
June 15, 2018
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Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control
Audrey Watters
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Transcript
Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June
2018
Programming and Social Engineering Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June 2018
Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June 2018 Who the F**k does the
Tech Industry Think It Is
B. F. Skinner: A History of “Behavioral Design” Audrey Watters
Tech4Good, June 2018
“Skinner Agrees He Is the Most Important Influence in Psychology”
— The New York Times Magazine, 1968
“The Skinner Box”
The pigeon-guided missile
None
“Teaching machines”
Operant conditioning and the “War on Poverty”
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Persuasive technologies