The creative porpoise: training for novel behavior.

By Karen W. Pryor, Richard H. Haag, J. P. O'Reilly. 1969

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• Zoo Animal Welfare (2013, background): “However, aquariums once employed or collaborated with behavioral scientists whose work (often supported by federal research grants) significantly advanced our knowledge of dolphins,whales, and othermarinemammals (e.g., Kellogg andRice 1966; Tavolga 1966; Pryor et al. 1969; Herman 1987).”
• Operant variability and voluntary action. (2010, background): “Pryor, Haag, and O’Reilly (1969) rewarded porpoises for novel flips, swims, turns, and the like, and eventually some of the porpoises generated behaviors that qualitatively differed from any that had previously been observed in that species.”
• Utilitarianism or romanticism: the effect of rewards on employees' innovative behaviour (2011, background): “Utilitarianism provides the foundation for early behaviourist arguments that suggest that people’s behaviours are driveable and changeable and that extrinsic rewards can bring expected behaviours and performance (e.g. Maltzman, 1960; Pryor et al., 1969).”