Most people know Ivan Pavlov for training dogs with a bell, but the real story is far more disturbing. His experiments were originally about digestion, not psychology, and involved invasive surgeries ...

The science of learning has more fully developed the nature and function of Pavlovian conditioning than is commonly believed. This form of learning is vital to adaptive behavior.

Brand Management - When we hear a name, see a logo, whiff a particular scent, or encounter a sensation, we are conditioned—like Pavlov's dogs—to respond in a specific way.

"Pavlov's Dogs," veteran Finnish documentarian Arto Halonen's beautifully crafted study of Russian showman/psychologist Sergei Knyazev, fascinates on multiple levels. In addition to the novelty ...

We may not salivate at each alert, but our brain is certainly responding. I have studied the “psychology of technology” since 1984 and can tell you that we did not become Pavlov’s dogs ...

More than a century after Ivan Pavlov's dog was conditioned to salivate when it heard the sound of a tone prior to receiving food, scientists have found neurons that are critical to how people and ...

Pavlov's discoveries opened the way for the tailored modification of behaviour and played a large role in the behaviourist theory of psychology introduced in America by John Watson in 1913.

Everybody knows about Pavlov’s dogs—the pooches who taught us about conditioning by being trained to salivate at the sound of the bell. But what kind of dog did he use?

Raymond Tallis reviews “Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science.” by Daniel P. Todes.

Pavlov’s drooling dogs hold the key to understanding many of our most important emotional experiences – as well as the overt actions we take to adapt to a world fraught with daunting challenges.