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1972 • 3,568 citations

Failure to escape traumatic shock.

1967 • 1,860 citations

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1967 • 1,162 citations

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1953 • 597 citations

Love and Will

1969 • 465 citations

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1971 • 454 citations

Effects of coping behavior in different warning signal conditions on stress pathology in rats.

1971 • 395 citations

The vital balance

1963 • 277 citations

Psychic cost of adaptation to an environmental stressor.

1969 • 268 citations

Self-control and predictability: Their effects on reactions to aversive stimulation.

1971 • 243 citations

The need to predict and control under conditions of threat1

1963 • 198 citations

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1958 • 168 citations

An experimental analogue of fear from a sense of helplessness.

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Perceived control, self-observation, and response to aversive stimulation.

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Behavioral consequences of adaptation to controllable and uncontrollable noise

1971 • 125 citations

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