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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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Conditioning and Sexual Behavior: A Review

TL;DR: The role of learning in sexual excitement, in behaviors that bring about the opportunity to mate, in courtship and solicitation displays, insexual arousal and copulatory behaviors, in sexual partner preferences, and the short- and long-term influence of copulatory experience on sexual and reproductive function is examined.
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The Labor of Fun How Video Games Blur the Boundaries of Work and Play

TL;DR: The microcosm of these online games may reveal larger social trends in the blurring boundaries between work and play.
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Beyond dual-process models: A categorisation of processes underlying intuitive judgement and decision making

TL;DR: It is argued that intuition is not a homogeneous concept, but a label used for different cognitive mechanisms that have to be distinguished to allow for fruitful investigations of intuition, and how this differentiation might help to clarify the relationship between affect and intuition.
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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.