Behavioral Scientist Gifts

Pavlov's dog - Pavlov.

'I've got this guy trained - every time I pull this lever he feeds me!'

'If we didn't do so well in this easy box, they wouldn't have given us this complicated box.'

'If he grabs the broccoli, we turn on the Raffi tunes. If he heads towards the Playstation, he hit him with the air horn at 100db.'

Failures.

"The light goes on. I pull the lever. The food comes. It's a full life."

"There's no animal testing in our lab. The emphasis is on group work and development of social skills."

It was Tiffany who originally made Pavlov's dog salivate.

H. J. Eysenck

'Quasimodo meets Pavlov's dogs'

Pavlov's Dream

"We got this. I was born in a corn maze." CS629922

Woman in the jungle amongst gorillas writes; 'It seems I cannot look them in the eye without prompting confrontation'. Two men in a pub - one asks the other 'What are you looking at?'

Pavlov Throws Out The Anomaly

Pavlov's Dog. Pavlov's Cat.

Modern Pavlovian Response. Beep! Beep! Beep! Every time I hear those beeps my mouth starts watering!

Psychological Research Institute. Show me a bunch of type A's, and I'll show you a control group!

"Dopamine Casino. Gambling that makes you feel like gambling."

"You know, if I come into your place, I might never leave."

"If he presses the first lever, some food comes out; the second level, some candy comes out; the third lever, a female mouse comes out. After a week, he's looking for another lever."

"Bark or stare? Always a tough decision. Bark? Maybe stare? Whimper? Maybe? Meanwhile, stare."

"Sometimes ... I just want to run away."

"I know it’s an issue, and we’re working on it in therapy."

"You can stop pulling, you knucklehead—I took your leash off ten minutes ago."

Codepetdency Counseling: "He won't even sit on my lap anymore."

The life of penguins.

"This may be Malcolm Gladwell talking, but we were married on the wrong day!"

"Now, let your inner ‘bad dog’ answer the question ..."

"I plan on keeping this off my resume!"

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

"He's so well behaved I'm really worried, doctor."

Pavlov's dog

'I think we're losing sight of our roots.'

Tyler missed the old days before his parents used behavioral tracking software.

"They took my pellets, man, I been hitting' that lever al day, they took my PELLETS!"