[2] The Pavlovian Society was established in 1955 by W. Horsley Gantt, at a ceremony held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of his Pavlovian Laboratory at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
The meeting was attended by Gantt, Howard Liddell, Edward Kempf, David Rioch, and William G. Reese.
The agreement reached at that meeting was for the society's membership to be initially limited to thirty-five people.
[6] Other people who have served as president of the society since then include Stephen Maren, Michael Fanselow,[7] Richard F. Thompson,[8] and B. F.
[9] The current president is Natalie Tronson in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.