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Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory

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Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.

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Adaptation-level theory : an experimental and systematic approach to behavior

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Fundamentals of Language

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Patterns of Child Rearing, 1951-1958

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A circumplex model for maternal behavior.

1959 • 620 citations

Hypothalamic Substrates of Reward

1962 • 474 citations

Plasticity in Sensory-Motor Systems

1965 • 461 citations

Self-Stimulation of the Brain

1958 • 403 citations

Toward Some Integration of Learning Theories: The Concept of Optimal Stimulation

1955 • 286 citations

Social conditioning of vocalizations in the infant.

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Patterns of parent behavior.

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Maternal Behavior, Child Behavior, and Their Intercorrelations from Infancy Through Adolescence

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1958 • 123 citations

INFANTS' DIFFERENTIAL REACTIONS TO FAMILIAR AND DISTORTED FACES

1966 • 98 citations

Two conditions limiting critical age for imprinting.

1959 • 77 citations

Internalized behavioral suppression and the timing of social punishment.

1965 • 62 citations

The origin of self-criticism.

1964 • 59 citations

Behavioral correlates of evoked activity recorded from association areas of the cerebral cortex.

1965 • 55 citations

Changes in chicks' responses to novel moving objects over the sensitive period for imprinting

1964 • 51 citations

Relation between conspicuousness of stimuli and their effectiveness in the imprinting situation.

1964 • 34 citations

Imprinting: A Reassessment

1965 • 24 citations

Imprinting and the “law of effort”

1964 • 10 citations