Karen Pryor

Karen Pryor (born May 14, 1932) is an American author who specialized in behavioral psychology and marine mammal biology. She is a founder and proponent of clicker training. She was formerly a Marine Mammal Commissioner to the U.S. government.

Publications

Books:

• Reaching The Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals - 2009
• Click to Win: Clicker Training for the Show Ring - 2002
• Dolphin Societies: Discoveries and Puzzles -ed. with Kenneth Norris; University of California Press, 1998
• Don’t Shoot The Dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training - 1984, 1999, 2002, 2006
• A Dog & a Dolphin 2.0: An Introduction To Clicker Training - 1996
• Getting Started: Clicker Training for Cats - 1999, 2002, 2004
• Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs - 1999, 2002, 2005
• Lads Before the Wind - 1975, 1994, 2000 (Harper & Row 1975)
• Nursing Your Baby - 1963, 1973, 1991, 2005 (HarperCollins Publishers 1963)
• On Behavior: Essays and Research - 1994
• Crunch and Des: Classic Stories of Saltwater Fishing - 2002
• How To Teach Your Dog To Play Frisbee - 1985
• Pryor, K. (2014). A dolphin journey. Aquatic Mammals 40th Anniversary: Special Issue, 104-115.
• Pryor, K. & Chase, S. (2014). Training for variable and innovative behavior. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 27, 218-225
• Pryor, K. & Ken Ramirez, K. (2014) Modern Animal Training. In The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Operant and Classical Conditioning. McSweeney, F.K and Murphy, E. S. (Eds.).
• Pryor, K.W (2001). Cultural transmission of behavior in animals: How a modern training technology uses spontaneous social imitation in cetaceans and Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 352-352
• Pryor, K. & Shallenberger, I. (1991). School structure in spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the tuna purse seine fishery in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. In Dolphin Societies: Discoveries and Puzzles. Pryor, K. & Norris, K.S. (Eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press
• Pryor, K. (1981). Why Porpoise Trainers Are Not Dolphin Lovers: Real and False Communication in the Operant Setting. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 364, 1, 137
• Norris, K.S., Pryor, K. (1970). A Tagging Method for Small Cetaceans. Journal of Mammalogy, 51, 3, 609-610
• Pryor, K.W., Haang, R., & O’Reilly, J. (1969). The creative porpoise: Training for novel behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 653-661
• Lang, T.G., Pryor, K. (1966). Hydrodynamic Performance of Porpoises (Stenella attenuata). Science, 152, 3721, 531-533.
• Pryor, T., Pryor, K.,& Norris, S.K. (1965). Observations on a Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata Gray) from Hawaii. Journal of Mammalogy, 46, 3, 450-461.