Cognitive Appraisals and Transformations in Self-Control

Conflict, arousal, and curiosity.

1960 • 5,766 citations

Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality.

1973 • 3,146 citations

Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification.

1972 • 1,313 citations

Attention in delay of gratification.

1970 • 959 citations

Processes in Delay of Gratification

1974 • 774 citations

The collected papers of David Rapaport

1967 • 398 citations

Preference for delayed reward as a function of age, intelligence, and length of delay interval.

1962 • 343 citations

Effects of attention to symbolically presented rewards on self-control.

1973 • 285 citations

Experimental reduction of stress based on ego-defense theory.

1964 • 284 citations

Theory and research on the antecedents of self-imposed delay of reward.

1966 • 146 citations

Reinforcement in human behavior.

1972 • 124 citations

Effects of expectancy on working and waiting for larger reward.

1965 • 121 citations

Delayed gratification and ego development: implications for clinical and experimental research.

1955 • 99 citations

The role of expectancy in delayed reinforcement.

1956 • 85 citations

The Psychoanalytic Theory of Thinking

1958 • 66 citations

Avoidance learning of perceptual defense and vigilance.

1957 • 36 citations

Change in Perceptual Threshold as a Protective Function of the Organism1

1954 • 16 citations