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Modern Times, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, February 2, 2012 15:37 - 5 Comments
Modern Times">B.F. Skinner Likes Your F.B. Status Modern Times
More than half a century ago, behavioural psychologist B.F. Skinner conducted countless experiments in an attempt to condition the behaviour of pigeons. Corin Faife explores some uncomfortable parallels between Skinner's pigeons and today's Facebook and Twitter users.