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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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Changing Simple Energy-Related Consumer Behaviors: How the Enactment of Intentions Is Thwarted by Acting and Non-Acting Habits

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the capability to perform or abstain from performing actions depends on the type of habit established and found that an acting habit (switching off the light upon leaving a room) supports execution of the intention to act, but hinders the intention of abstaining from acting (not switching it off).
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Dopamine D1 and D2 antagonists attenuate amphetamine-produced enhancement of responding for conditioned reward in rats.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that both D1 and D2 receptor subtypes are essential in responding for conditioned reward by examining the effects of the D1 antagonist SCH 23390 and the D2 antagonists pimozide and metoclopramide on amphetamine-produced enhancement of responding for conditioning reward.
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Further Examination of Covert Audio Coaching on Improving Employment Skills among Secondary Students with Autism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended the literature on covert audio coaching by examining its effects on high school students with ASD performing a job task and found that with the introduction of CAC, the participants' job task accuracy and fluency improved.
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B. F. Skinner's contributions to applied behavior analysis.

TL;DR: It is found that B. F. Skinner’s contributions to applied behavior analysis fall into five categorizes: the style and content of his science, his interpretations of typical and atypical human behavior, the implications he drew from his science for application, his descriptions of possible applications, and his own applications to nonhuman and human behavior.
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Do Ethical Values Work? A Quantitative Study of the Impact of Fair Trade Coffee on Consumer Behavior

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the large French fair trade market and the importance of FT coffee within it, in an attempt to identify some general features of FT consumers on the basis of 7,587 transactions, and determine the impact of FT characteristics on customer behavior.
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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.