While researching salivation and digestion (work that earned him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Pavlov noticed something unexpected: his laboratory dogs would begin salivating not ...

Pavlov’s dogs essentially launched behaviorism as a psychological approach, influencing how we understand both animal and human behavior. This work earned Pavlov the Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

While in prison he wrote to the famous Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov appealing for his help, and Pavlov eventually won Beck’s release.

According to Dimsdale, some historians believe Soviet state agents used Pavlov's experimental techniques to force confessions during Stalin's show trials in the late 1930s.

In the 1960s, the KGB conducted psychological experiments that found two months or less of bombarding subjects with “nonstop” fear messages resulted in subjects being “brainwashed” to ...

For most people, the concept of a conditioned reflex only conjures up the image of Pavlov’s dog salivating at the sound of a bell signaling the arrival of food. But, far from a seemingly simple ...

The main ideology the Nobel Foundation appears to be committed to, however, is the importance of preserving the prestige of the Nobel Prize—and in this it has succeeded.

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by The Royal Swedish Academy. Kang’s work focuses on “historical ...