Phobias and preparedness

The Biological Foundations of Language

1967 • 3,571 citations

The practice of behavior therapy

1969 • 2,341 citations

Punishment and aversive behavior

1969 • 1,994 citations

Conditioned emotional reactions.

1920 • 1,887 citations

On the generality of the laws of learning.

1970 • 1,732 citations

Species-specific defense reactions and avoidance learning.

1970 • 1,591 citations

AUTO‐SHAPING OF THE PIGEON'S KEY‐PECK¹

1968 • 1,527 citations

Two-process learning theory: Relationships between Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental learning.

1967 • 1,474 citations

Predictability, surprise, attention, and conditioning

1967 • 1,402 citations

Some quantitative properties of anxiety.

1941 • 1,366 citations

A comparative approach to vocal learning: Song development in white-crowned sparrows.

1970 • 927 citations

Pavlovian conditioned inhibition.

1969 • 848 citations

Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy

1909 • 807 citations

Aversive Conditioning and Learning

1971 • 764 citations

Lectures on conditioned reflexes

1928 • 717 citations

AUTO‐MAINTENANCE IN THE PIGEON: SUSTAINED PECKING DESPITE CONTINGENT NON‐REINFORCEMENT²

1969 • 710 citations

Biological boundaries of learning

1972 • 664 citations

Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes.

1929 • 593 citations

Fears and Phobias

1969 • 572 citations

The Practice of Behavior Therapy.

1970 • 508 citations

Method and theory in the study of avoidance.

1969 • 491 citations

Traumatic avoidance learning: the outcomes of several extinction procedures with dogs.

1953 • 455 citations

The Elimination of Children's Fears.

1924 • 416 citations

Chronic fear produced by unpredictable electric shock.

1968 • 373 citations

Biological foundations of language

1968 • 355 citations

Inhibition of avoidance behavior.

1965 • 322 citations

Celestial Rotation: Its Importance in the Development of Migratory Orientation

1970 • 262 citations

The Causes and Cures of Neurosis

1967 • 236 citations

Extinction of avoidance responding through response prevention (flooding).

1970 • 235 citations

A theory of the incubation of anxiety/fear responses

1968 • 225 citations

Bait shyness, a study in rat behaviour

1953 • 153 citations

Cue properties vs palatability of flavors in avoidance learning

1970 • 137 citations

Characteristics of a conditioned response in human subjects during extinction trials following a single traumatic conditioning trial.

1964 • 134 citations

Rapid Extinction of an Avoidance Response following a Period of Response Prevention in the Avoidance Apparatus

1966 • 125 citations

Inhibition of delay in Pavlovian fear conditioning.

1967 • 125 citations

Specific aversions as a component of specific hungers.

1967 • 115 citations

Paradoxical enhancement of learned fear.

1970 • 106 citations

The Causes and Cures of Neurosis

1965 • 99 citations

An Attempt to Modify the Emotional Attitudes of Infants by the Conditioned Response Technique

1934 • 96 citations

Chronic fear and ulcers in rats as a function of the unpredictability of safety.

1970 • 90 citations

Three cases of the "conditioned fear response."

1929 • 88 citations

Effect of intensity and duration of punishment on extinction of an avoidance response.

1965 • 80 citations

The extinction of avoidance responses under curare.

1958 • 80 citations

Extinction of conditioned fear as a function of percentage of reinforcement.

1967 • 63 citations

Limited effects of electroconvulsive shock on memory of taste stimulation.

1970 • 56 citations

Exploratory studies of the conditioning of autonomic responses in curarized dogs.

1962 • 56 citations

Qualitative versus Directional Cues in Two Forms of Differentiation

1966 • 47 citations

The influence of magnetic information on the orientation of the indigo bunting, Passerina cyanea

1970 • 31 citations

Conditioned drinking and its failure to extinguish: Avoidance, preparedness, or functional autonomy?

1970 • 30 citations

Classical Conditioning

1970 • 29 citations

Classical conditioning.

2004 • 26 citations

A comparison of learning based on social or nonsocial discriminative stimuli

1970 • 11 citations