Robert A. Rescorla (1940-2020)

Memorializes Robert Arthur Rescorla (1940-2020), emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Rescorla was the world's most distinguished scholar in animal learning and a great teacher. Rescorla thought of himself as primarily an experimen talist, and his experiments on Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental learning would win any prize for the aesthetics of experimental design. Most of his nearly 200 empirical articles included multiple experiments with replications. Among Re scorla's most beautiful experiments were the studies of extinc tion performed in the last decade of his career. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).