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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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Behavioral management and task performance in organizations: Conceptual background, meta-analysis, and test of alternative models.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide the conceptual background, meta-analyze available behavioral management studies (N= 72) in organizational settings, and examine whether combined reinforcement effects on task performance are additive (sum of individual effects), redundant (combined effects are less than the additive effects), or synergistic (combining effects are greater than the sum of the individual effects).
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Opioids, Reward and Addiction: An Encounter of Biology, Psychology, and Medicine

TL;DR: If the entire materia medica at the authors' disposal were limited to the choice and use of only one drug, I am sure that a great many, if not the majority, of us would choose opium.
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The comparative psychology of intelligence.

TL;DR: It is argued here that work using distantly related species may yield valuable insights into the structure of intelligence and that the question of whether or not learning mechanisms are niche-specific is one which can only be answered by comparative work in “nonnatural” situations.
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Development of a Measure for the Organizational Learning Construct

TL;DR: This research represents the initial work in developing an empirically reliable and valid measure of organizational learning and includes an eightfactor, 28-item instrument for assessing OL, derived from a sample of 119 knowledge-based firms.
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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.