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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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Relationships between the determinants of performance in serial feature-positive discriminations

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effects of various pre- and post-discrimination treatments on learning and performance in serial feature-positive discriminations using an appetitive behavioral observation procedure with rats and found that the conditional event-setting relation may be independent of feature-US associations and may not be dependent on feature-common element associations.
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Rats don’t always respond faster for more food: The paradoxical incentive effect

TL;DR: In this article, one-pellet reinforcers were compared to two-and three-pellets in the presence of a 20sec intertrial interval (ITI) and an alternate response to test a memorial/overshadowing explanation.
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The four free-operant freedoms

TL;DR: The seldom-mentioned four free-operant freedoms are described for the first time in detail and are reviewed in some detail for younger behavior analysts who did not have the opportunity of learning them firsthand.
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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.