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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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An analysis of an operant discrimination.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of an operator discriminator is presented, based on the concept of an Operant Discrimination (OPD), and the analysis is extended to an operator discrimination model.
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Behavior analysis and revaluation.

TL;DR: An approach to the interpretation of reinforcer-related manipulations and related findings is presented that employs neural network simulations grounded in the experimental analysis of behavior and neuroscience and addresses some general issues regarding the relations among behavior analysis, neuroscience, and associationism.
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5-HT 1B receptor inhibition of alcohol-heightened aggression in mice: comparison to drinking and running

TL;DR: These results confirm the inhibitory effects of 5-HT1B receptor stimulation on aggressive performance and drinking and reveal an inhibition of voluntary wheel running, contrary to the stimulation of running in a novel, open arena.
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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.