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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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Psychopharmacology of conditioned reward: evidence for a rewarding signal at D1-like dopamine receptors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of dopaminergic agents with different mechanisms of action have revealed several interesting dissociations suggesting that a rewarding signal at dopamine D1-like receptors may mediate both the acquisition of rewarding properties by neutral stimuli and their ability to control behavior.
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Food selectivity and problem behavior in children with developmental disabilities. Analysis and intervention.

TL;DR: Functional analysis and Intervention data suggested that establishing operations increased the efficacy of the contingency-based intervention and the implications of applying this intervention in the community were discussed.
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The conditioned emotional response (CER) as a baseline for the study of anti-anxiety drugs☆

TL;DR: Although the evidence still remains far too fragmentary to evaluate the validity of the CER as a prototype of anxiety, human or animal, the technique is likely to continue to find a useful role as one element in the behavioural profile of pharmacological agents.
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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.