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The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner
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The article was published on 1938-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3337 citations till now.

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Patterns of reinforcement and resistance to extinction in young children.

Sidney W. Bijou
- 01 Mar 1957 - 
TL;DR: Results have established that intermittent reinforcement (whether fixed or irregular in pattern) markedly increases resistance to extinction as compared to continuous reinforcement, and the interest at this stage of laboratory research on child behavior is to study this relationship in young children.
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Review: The central role of uncertainty reduction in determining behaviour.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a motivational framework based on the need to reduce uncertainty in complex and stochastic environments, where the ability to cope with the unexpected is essential for survival.
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Ogden R. Lindsley and the historical development of precision teaching.

TL;DR: This paper presents the historical developments of precision teaching, a technological offshoot of radical behaviorism and free-operant conditioning, and progresses from the scientific precursors of Precision Teaching and the beginnings of precision Teaching to principal developments since 1965.
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A History of Personality Psychology: Theory, Science, and Research from Hellenism to the Twenty-First Century

TL;DR: A survey of personality psychology can be found in this paper, where the authors present an overview of the psychology of personality from illness models to wellness models of human nature, from youth-based to lifespan models.
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How to Avoid the Dark Side of Gamification: Ten Business Scenarios and Their Unintended Consequences

TL;DR: The authors investigates drawbacks of using elements of games in recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance management through a series of scenarios describing different gamified interventions and discusses potential problems with the intervention, how psychological science may explain this, how these errors can be avoided, and future directions for gamification research.
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The Mentality of Apes

TL;DR: Koehler's analysis of the intelligence of higher primates marked a turning point in the psychology of thinking and the continuing struggle between behaviorism and cognitive psychology as discussed by the authors, but it was largely ignored for decades because it violated the conventional wisdom that animal behavior is simply the result of instinct or conditioning.
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Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

TL;DR: Wozniak as mentioned in this paper describes the early elaboration of the theory of reflex, habit, and implicit response in the early stages of the development of the early development of behaviourism.