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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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On the role of subsecond dopamine release in conditioned avoidance

TL;DR: This work has demonstrated that phasic dopamine release events are inhibited by stimuli associated with aversive events but increased by stimuli preceding the successful avoidance of the aversive event, and proposed a new theoretical explanation of conditioned avoidance.
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The roles of the amygdala in the affective regulation of body, brain, and behaviour

TL;DR: This account aims to furnish a general framework and specific pathways to implement models that are more closely related to biological evidence and isolate general principles that can potentially account for the wider possible empirical evidence in a coherent fashion.
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Review of Research Involving Applied Behavior Analysis in the Classroom

TL;DR: In this article, a study involving an applied analysis of behavior to a teacher, she will probably remark, "Why, what is new about that? I've been doing those things in my classroom for years!" If the teacher were asked to describe what she does in her classroom during a day, a week, or a year, one might even get a general description of her behavior that would enable a listener to classify her work as a form of applied behavior analysis.
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Behavioral considerations in the management of working dogs

TL;DR: This article is one person's perspective into the challenges of managing a behavioral medicine program in a large-scale working dog program environment and some of the commonalities of this kind of behavioral practice with companion animal settings are highlighted.
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Inactivating the infralimbic but not prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex facilitates the extinction of appetitive Pavlovian conditioning in Long-Evans rats

TL;DR: Findings suggest that the IL may normally maintain Pavlovian conditioned responding when an anticipated appetitive CS is unexpectedly withheld, and that this region has distinct roles in the expression of Pavlovians conditioning when an appetitive unconditioned stimulus is either presented or omitted.
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The Mentality of Apes

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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.