Year: 1970
Type: article
Abstract: The first three pecks on a response key by experimentally naive pigeons produced grain reinforcements. Thereafter, for approximately 50 experimental sessions and under a variety of schedule conditions, grain was presented independently of the subjects' behaviors. The pigeons continued to peck the response key "superstitiously" throughout the 50 sessions. The results suggest that superstitions are commonplace-not relatively infrequent or abnormal events-in the behavior of pigeons.
Author: Allen J. Neuringer
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1973325680