B.F. Skinner, 86, died of leukemia last month in Cambridge, Mass. The noted behaviorist had received a lifetime achievement award two days earlier from the American Psychological Association at its ...

Some simple techniques of the psychological laboratory can also be used in the home. They can train a dog to dance, a pigeon to play a toy piano and will illuminate the learning process in man ...

It sounds like science fiction, but in the 1940s, B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to guide missiles by pecking at screens to keep them on target. While the project showed promise, it was ultimately ...