• DOI:10.1037/h0045345
Corpus ID: 19945465

Pigeons in a pelican.

@article{Skinner1960PigeonsIA,
  title={Pigeons in a pelican.},
  author={B. Skinner},
  journal={American Psychologist},
  year={1960},
  volume={15},
  pages={28-37}
}

B. Skinner

Published 1960

Psychology

American Psychologist

THIS is the history of a crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the tracks intellectually speaking, but eventually vindicated in a sort of middle class respectability. It is the story of a proposal to use living organisms to guide missiles—of a research program during World War II called "Project Pigeon" and a peacetime continuation at the Naval Research Laboratory called "ORCON," from the words "organic control." Both of these programs have now been declassified. Man has always made use of… CONTINUE READING

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