What Pavlov's famous experiment taught us about learned behavior Even if you don't know a whole lot about psychology, you've probably heard of "Pavlov's dogs" or "Pavlov's bell." The phrases often ...

Here's what researchers think happened to a nine-month-old from one of the 'most unethical psychological expertiments ever'.

Pavlov also offered physicians a new therapeutic product: natural gastric juice produced by his “factory dogs.” By World War I, proceeds from selling bottled gastric juice had increased the ...

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov stumbled on the theory of classical conditioning (or the ‘Pavlovian response’) entirely by accident while researching dogs’ digestive secretions.

Pavlov trained his dogs to start salivating in response to all sorts of stimuli, but in contrast to many popular accounts, never a bell, according to Daniel Todes’ biography Ivan Pavlov: A ...