Foundations of an attributional theory of performance.

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations.

1958 • 12,235 citations

The Achieving Society

1961 • 6,674 citations

A DYNAMIC THEORY OF PERSONALITY

1936 • 3,778 citations

Social learning and clinical psychology.

1954 • 3,773 citations

Attribution: Perceiving the Causes of Behavior

1987 • 3,755 citations

Attribution theory in social psychology

1967 • 3,501 citations

Motivational determinants of risk-taking behavior.

1957 • 3,350 citations

The theory of decision making.

1954 • 2,645 citations

Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men

1950 • 2,502 citations

Introduction: Motivation

2020 • 2,342 citations

A study of anxiety and learning.

1952 • 1,060 citations

The conceptual representation and the measurement of psychological forces.

1938 • 965 citations

An attributional analysis of achievement motivation.

1970 • 943 citations

Quantitative Variation of Incentive and Performance in the White Rat

1942 • 881 citations

A theory of achievement motivation

1966 • 860 citations

Behavioral Decision Theory

1961 • 765 citations

Achievement motive and test anxiety conceived as motive to approach success and motive to avoid failure.

1960 • 478 citations

Causal ascriptions and achievement behavior: A conceptual analysis of effort and reanalysis of locus of control.

1972 • 370 citations

A theory of emotionally based drive (D) and its relation to performance in simple learning situations.

1958 • 335 citations

Cue utilization and attributional judgments for success and failure

1971 • 329 citations

Response latency as a function of the amount of reinforcement.

1949 • 260 citations

Subjective probability and decision under uncertainty.

1959 • 221 citations

Valence of outcome and expectation of success in relation to task difficulty and perceived locus of control.

1967 • 197 citations

The relation of anxiety (drive) level to performance in competitional and non-competitional paired-associates learning.

1956 • 195 citations

Attributional determinants of achievement-related behavior.

1972 • 184 citations

Performance as a function of motive strength and expectancy of goal-attainment.

1956 • 154 citations

The achievement motive, goal setting, and probability preferences.

1960 • 128 citations

The Interactive Effects of Anxiety, Failure, and Intra-Serial Duplication

1952 • 101 citations

The achievement motive in high school and college age women.

1953 • 98 citations

Anxiety (drive) level and degree of competition in paired-associates learning.

1956 • 94 citations

Role of success and failure in the learning of easy and complex tasks.

1966 • 92 citations

Drive versus cognitive theory: A reply to Boor and Harmon.

1971 • 92 citations

A model of riskless choice

2007 • 88 citations

A micromolar approach to behavior theory.

1956 • 73 citations

Performance as a function of achievement motive level and perceived difficulty.

1968 • 66 citations

Some Neglected Variables in Contemporary Conceptions of Decision and Performance

1964 • 55 citations

Comparison of two methods of investigating the effect of amount of reward on performance.

1958 • 40 citations

Anxiety and the Learning of Paired-Associates

1955 • 31 citations

An experimental analogue of repression: III. The effect of induced failure and success on memory measured by recall.

1951 • 29 citations

Effects of stress and anxiety on performance of a complex verbal-coding task.

1958 • 26 citations

Effect of volume of reinforcement and number of consummatory responses on licking and running behavior.

1961 • 25 citations

Effects of goal attainment: relaxation versus renewed striving.

1950 • 7 citations