Locus of control and learned helplessness.

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

1966 • 21,432 citations

Social learning and clinical psychology.

1954 • 3,773 citations

Progress in experimental personality research

1964 • 2,327 citations

Failure to escape traumatic shock.

1967 • 1,860 citations

Effects of inescapable shock upon subsequent escape and avoidance responding.

1967 • 1,162 citations

Internal versus external control of reinforcement: A review.

1966 • 751 citations

Review of the Internal-External Control Construct as a Personality Variable

1971 • 533 citations

Unpredictable and Uncontrollable Aversive Events

1971 • 454 citations

Depression and learned helplessness.

1974 • 399 citations

Depression and the perception of reinforcement.

1973 • 212 citations

Learned helplessness in human subjects.

1971 • 142 citations

Human traumatic avoidance learning: Theory and experiments on the operant-respondent distinction and failures to learn.

1962 • 127 citations

Interference with avoidance behavior: Failure to avoid traumatic shock.

1968 • 82 citations

Task and species generality of the “helplessness” phenomenon

1969 • 71 citations

Changes in expectancy in skill and chance situations

1955 • 25 citations