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Hospitalism; an inquiry into the genesis of psychiatric conditions in early childhood.

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Personal control over aversive stimuli and its relationship to stress.

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Unpredictable and Uncontrollable Aversive Events

1971 • 454 citations

Smiling, cooing, and "the game."

1972 • 413 citations

Depression and learned helplessness.

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Animals Respond for Food in the Presence of Free Food

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The heterosexual affectional system in monkeys.

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Evaluating the effects of the prediction-control confound.

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Clinical Research and the Stages of Dying

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