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The Behavior of Organisms
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A General Theory of Expropriative Crime: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors interpret criminal behaviors by which offenders expropriate goods or services from others as expressions of diverse behavioral strategies that derive from normal patterns of population-level social organization and interaction.
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Behavior potentiality as a joint function of the amount of training and the degree of hunger at the time of extinction.
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When Gains Loom Larger Than Losses Reversed Loss Aversion for Small Amounts of Money
TL;DR: This work has found that for small outcomes, this pattern is reversed, and gains loom larger than losses, and the hedonic principle is explained on the basis of this reversal.
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The Paradoxical Consequences of Revenge
TL;DR: Revenge has hedonic consequences that are precisely the opposite of what people expect, and people fail to appreciate the different affective consequences of witnessing and instigating punishment.
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"Work ethic" in pigeons: reward value is directly related to the effort or time required to obtain the reward.
TL;DR: Data support the view that the state of the animal immediately prior to presentation of the discrimination affects the value of the reinforcement that follows it, analogous to effects that when they occur in humans have been attributed to more complex cognitive and social factors.
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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.
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The irradiation of a tactile conditioned reflex in man.
Milton J. Bass,Clark L. Hull +1 more