Contemporary instinct theory and the fixed action pattern.

The Study of Instinct

1952 • 2,758 citations

Learning and Instinct in Animals

1964 • 1,624 citations

Biological and biochemical bases of behavior

1958 • 1,180 citations

A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behavior

1953 • 1,030 citations

An Introduction to the Study of the Ethology of Cichlid Fishes

1981 • 569 citations

On the nature of fear.

1946 • 481 citations

Evolution as a Process

1958 • 398 citations

The Concept of Development: An Issue in the Study of Human Behavior

1957 • 310 citations

SELF-DIFFERENTIATION OF THE BASIC PATTERNS OF COORDINATION

1968 • 305 citations

Principles of Animal Psychology

1936 • 288 citations

The Evolution of Behavior

1958 • 237 citations

The effects of early experience on the response to pain.

1957 • 223 citations

Olfactory conditioning in a parasitic insect and its relation to the problem of host selection

1937 • 218 citations

The descent of instinct.

1955 • 207 citations

DIURNAL RHYTHMS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

1958 • 172 citations

Behavior of the captive bottle-nose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus.

1948 • 169 citations

Motivational Effects of Brain Stimulation and Drugs

2017 • 160 citations

Heredity and environment in mammalian behaviour

1953 • 147 citations

An objectivistic Study of the innate behaviour of animals

1942 • 115 citations

ACTIVITY IN A CRUSTACEAN GANGLION. II. PATTERN AND INTERACTION IN BURST FORMATION

1955 • 114 citations

Potential changes in the isolated nervous system of Dytiscus marginalis

1931 • 100 citations

Problems in the bio-psychology of social organization.

1946 • 97 citations

The Origins of Patterned Nervous Discharge

1993 • 79 citations

The Evolution, Ontogeny and Quantitative Control of the Settling Movements of Some New World Saturniid Moths, With Some Comments On Distance Communication By Honey-Bees

1960 • 73 citations

Incubation and Nest Building Behaviour of Black-Headed Gulls. I: Incubation Behaviour in the Incubation Period

1961 • 71 citations

Cocoon Construction By the Cecropia Silkworm I. the Role of the External Environment

1953 • 57 citations

Electrically Controlled Behavior

1962 • 54 citations

Comparative Ethology and the Systematics of Spider Wasps

1953 • 54 citations

Sources of order in the maternal behavior of animals.

1956 • 48 citations

Zur Physiologie Der Angeborenen Auslösenden Mechanismen

1953 • 41 citations

Further Observations on the Effect of De-Afferentation on the Locomotory Activity of Amphibian Limbs

1946 • 36 citations

Central stimulation and other new approaches to motivation and reward.

1958 • 33 citations

Interocular transfer of learning in visually naive and experienced infant chimpanzees.

1955 • 33 citations

Irrational fears in the dog.

1952 • 33 citations

The rhythmic nature of animals and plants

1959 • 28 citations

Some Displacement Activities of the Black-Headed Gull1)

1953 • 27 citations

The interaction of unlearned behaviour patterns and learning in mammals

1961 • 20 citations

Some Concepts of Ethology

1954 • 16 citations

Experiment on the effect of social isolation on reproductive behaviour in the three-spined stickleback

1960 • 12 citations

Effects of pregnancy and salt-intake on genital licking.

1962 • 10 citations

Behaviour of some hybrids in the Mallard Group

1961 • 3 citations