Pavlov and Skinner: Two lives in science (an introduction to B. F. Skinner's "Some Responses to the Stimulus 'Pavlov'").

Catania, A. C., & Laties, V. G. (1999). Pavlov and Skinner: Two lives in science (an introduction to B. F. Skinner's "Some Responses to the Stimulus 'Pavlov'"). Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 72, 455-461.

The sesquicentennial of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's birth in September 1999 is being celebrated in Russia by a special issue of the Russian Journal of Physiology (the former I. M. Sechenov Physiological Journal, founded by Pavlov in 1917). The following article and the address by Skinner that it introduces are scheduled to appear in Russian translation in that special issue. Skinner's "Some Responses to the Stimulus `Pavlov' " was his presidential address to the Pavlovian Society of North America in 1966. The following article provides the context for Skinner's address by describing some ways in which Pavlov's research influenced Skinner's contributions.

Key words: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, B. F. Skinner, Pavlovian Society of North America, respondent conditioning, classical conditioning, operant behavior