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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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Rationality and Utility from the Standpoint of Evolutionary Biology

TL;DR: This article argued that it is individually rational to abide by moral norms oneself as a rationally paid cost in a strategy of getting others to live up to them, and argued that moral norms are our individually rational preferences as to how others behave and that the collective-goods payoffs are sufficient so that the cooperative system is worth maintaining and if that social system is intact.
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Recombinative generalization: Relationships between environmental conditions and the linguistic repertoires of language learners☆

TL;DR: The authors introduced recombinative generalization as a principle of stimulus control that enables individuals to express and to comprehend novel utterances, and explored the use of a language matrix-training paradigm to explore how the necessary stimulus conditions vary depending upon the linguistic repertoires of individuals who are learning a new syntactic construction.
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Animal Cognition: Thinking without Language

TL;DR: Findings of studies of serial learning by pigeons suggest that, while learning to produce a particular sequence of four elements, pigeons also acquire knowledge about the relation between non-adjacent elements and about the ordinal position of a particular element.
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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.