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Punishment and aversive behavior

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The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 894 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Aversives & Punishment (psychology).

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A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward

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TL;DR: Mechanisms that govern the processing of emotional information, particularly those involved in fear reduction, are proposed and applications to therapeutic practice and to the broader study of psychopathology are discussed.
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A model for Pavlovian learning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli.

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Learned helplessness: Theory and evidence.

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