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Can horses be used for corporate training or is this nonsense? If you listened to the NPR piece called, “Horse Sense: New Breed Of Executive Training” you might have had the same reaction I did: sounds a little “fishy”. Find out why “Clever Hans” just might be alive and well in the field of management training.

Resources for this Episode

Thank you to the following for permission to use their comments:

• Dr. Debra Briihl, Dept. of Psychology and Counseling, Valdosta State University
• Dr. Dennis Goff, Chair, Department of Psychology, Randolph College
• Melissa R. Shyan-Norwalt, PhD, CAAB, Companion Animal Problem Solvers, Inc.
• Dr. Gerald L. Peterson, Professor of Psychology, Saginaw Valley State University
• Dr. Carol Devolder, St. Ambrose University

Clever Hans

• Episode 31: Lemon Slices and a New Face on Mars! Gestalt Principles at Work
• The story on the NPR site: Horse Sense: New Breed Of Executive Training
• In Wikipedia
• The Skeptic’s Dictionary
• UK-Skeptics
• Paul F. Ballantyne Ph.D website

Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation

• Evaluation of Executive Training by Glenn Crone
• Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
• Instructional System Design - Evaluation Phase - Chapter VI. From the Performance, Learning, Leadership, & Knowledge website