Karen Pryor

“In due course I would learn how to cover up for this event, but on that awful day I knew of nothing…

— Karen Pryor

“As he [Sir Malcolm Sargeant, conductor of the London Philharmonic] stood in waist deep in the shallows of Whaler's Cove, the littler…

— Karen Pryor

“One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as…

— Karen Pryor

“Nancy taught two hens to help her sort flowers to make leis. She set them down by a basket of three colors…

— Karen Pryor

“I couldn't help wondering where porpoises had learned this game of running on the bows of ships. Porpoises have been swimming in…

— Karen Pryor

“Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other,…

— Karen Pryor

“I griped about it at lunch one day to Bill Weist and Dr. Leslie Squier, our visiting psychologists from Reed College. I'd…

— Karen Pryor

“My idea of recreation in those busy years, was to leave the porpoise training for an hour or two, round up a…

— Karen Pryor

“The porpoises and whale themselves, in their quests for entertainment, often created problems. One summer a fashion developed in the training tanks…

— Karen Pryor

“that aversives stop behavior, they don’t start it; and”

— Karen Pryor

“...that aversives stop behavior, they don’t start it; and that fear and pain produce completely unpredictable and usually highly undesirable side effects,…

— Karen Pryor