The Worst Of Us

Excerpt from "The Reagan Diaries" by former U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan :

Page 19 : Year 1981

Saturday, May 16 - Armed Forces Day

Nancy up at the crack of dawn to leave for Miss. & the launching.

Why am I so scared always when she leaves like that? I do an awful lot of praying until she returns. She returned and I've said my thank you.










https://www.psychologistworld.com/superstition

Psychologist World

Superstition

How Skinner's pigeon experiment revealed signs of superstition in pigeons.

"They may seem unlikely candidates for psychological analysis, but pigeons have given a revealing insight into how animals, including humans, can be bound by superstition..."

The Superstition Experiment

In the Summer of 1947, renowned behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner published his study on a group of pigeons that showed even animals are susceptible to the human condition that is superstition.

Skinner conducted his research on a group of hungry pigeons whose body weights had been reduced to 75% of their normal weight when well-fed. For a few minutes each day, a mechanism fed the birds at regular intervals. What observers of the pigeons found showed the birds developing superstitious behavior, believing that by acting in a particular way, or committing a certain action, food would arrive.



- posted by Kerry Burgess 06:39 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 03 September 2018