Overview This is an essay written for Ivan Pavlov's birthday on September 26th. Starting from the familiar framework of ...

Ivan Pavlov is remembered today for several reasons. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering conditioned reflexes when he trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell. He was a founding ...

My ears perked up when, in recent weeks, I heard Donald Trump and Ivan Pavlov mentioned twice in connection with each other. After all, I’m an experimental psychologist who journeyed to Russia to ...

Since the early 20th century, the name of the Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov has been associated with the idea of brainwashing. Pavlov’s experiments, in which he trained dogs to salivate in response to ...

When human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko learned that fellow attorney Ivan Pavlov had been detained in Moscow, alarm bells rang. "This is a real state of emergency," Moskalenko, who 20 years ago ...

Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award celebrates the valor of individuals who put their lives on the line to protect the dignity and rights of others. Human Rights Watch collaborates with these ...

"Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin". The interpretation of this quote may seem challenging, but in plain terms, what Ivan Pavlov is referring to ...

While researching digestion in dogs, Ivan Pavlov noticed that the dogs began to drool as soon as they saw the white coats of the people who fed them; before they could even see or smell their food. At ...