How To Train Your Dog With Love + Science - Dog Training with Annie Grossman + Anamarie Johnson PhD
Kids & Family:Pets & Animals
Bonus: Annie reads aloud Walden Two Revisited, the 1976 preface to BF Skinner's novel Walden Two
This is a bonus episode in which Annie reads aloud the preface to Walden Two, BF Skinner's 1948 novel about a utopian community that he imagines could be closely engineered based on what we know about behavioral science, and cooperatively governed based on principles rooted in positive reinforcement. The book was called "fascism without tears" when it was published and also compared to a plan for a dog obedience school for humans. Three decades after writing it, Skinner wrote Walden Two Revisited, which reflected on how society still hadn't done enough to harness the power of non-coercive, non-punitive control in order to better people's lives. Forty-five years hence, has anything really changed? Maybe dog training can help us better understand what Skinner had in mind...
Notes:
Clubhouse Reading Group on Walden Two: 4/1 at 3PM ET. Need a Clubhouse Invite? Text 917-414-2625
Annie imitates a dial up modem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B8KPvp9eew
Buy Walden Two: https://amzn.to/3cKdGL8
3 minute summary of Walden Two, by the Prosocial Progress Foundation
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