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Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death

1975 • 6,201 citations

Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence.

1959 • 5,257 citations

Intrinsic Motivation

1975 • 2,665 citations

Personal causation : the internal affective determinants of behavior. --

1968 • 1,802 citations

The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.

1976 • 1,026 citations

Urban stress: Experiments on noise and social stressors

1973 • 498 citations

Effects of control and predictability on the physical and psychological well-being of the institutionalized aged.

1976 • 345 citations

On Knowing

1962 • 266 citations

Initiating Play Activity of Children: The Moderating Influence of Verbal Cues on Intrinsic Motivation

1977 • 158 citations