Adaptation to Reward

Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk

1979 • 41,742 citations

Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk

1988 • 34,484 citations

Choices, values, and frames.

1984 • 6,096 citations

Choices, Values, and Frames

2013 • 5,614 citations

Le Comportement de l'Homme Rationnel devant le Risque: Critique des Postulats et Axiomes de l'Ecole Americaine

1953 • 3,997 citations

The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk

1948 • 3,029 citations

Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk

1954 • 2,688 citations

Handbook of operant behavior

1978 • 2,259 citations

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

1959 • 2,047 citations

Caste and ecology in the social insects

1979 • 1,917 citations

Failure to escape traumatic shock.

1967 • 1,860 citations

An adjusting procedure for studying delayed reinforcement.

1987 • 1,648 citations

Species-specific defense reactions and avoidance learning.

1970 • 1,591 citations

Optimization Theory in Evolution

1978 • 1,121 citations

The "supersitition" experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior.

1971 • 1,066 citations

ECONOMIC CONCEPTS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR

1980 • 879 citations

Advances in the Study of Behavior

2016 • 834 citations

An empirical demonstration of risk-sensitive foraging preferences

1980 • 751 citations

Foraging behavior: ecological, ethological, and psychological approaches

1980 • 742 citations

Adaptive Behavior and Learning

1985 • 716 citations

Caste and ecology in the social insects

1979 • 687 citations

Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior

1982 • 559 citations

Economics of Feeding Territoriality in the Golden‐Winged Sunbird

1975 • 512 citations

Choice, optimal foraging, and the delay-reduction hypothesis

1985 • 442 citations

Tests of an equivalence rule for fixed and variable reinforcer delays.

1984 • 391 citations

Constraints on Learning

1972 • 385 citations

Owners and Satellites: The Economics of Territory Defence in the Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba

1981 • 358 citations

Perspectives in optimal foraging

1983 • 351 citations

Response deprivation: An empirical approach to instrumental performance.

1974 • 345 citations

Operant behavior as adaptation to constraint.

1979 • 335 citations

Perspectives in Ornithology

1984 • 307 citations

Systematic foraging by a nectar-feeding bird, the amakihi (Loxops virens).

1978 • 282 citations

Melioration and Behavioral Allocation

1980 • 280 citations

Analysis of Motivational Processes

1981 • 278 citations

Adaptive Behavior and Learning

2016 • 253 citations

APERIODICITY AS A FACTOR IN CHOICE¹

1964 • 253 citations

OPTIMIZATION AND THE MATCHING LAW AS ACCOUNTS OF INSTRUMENTAL BEHAVIOR

1981 • 243 citations

Feedback mechanisms in animal behaviour

1971 • 228 citations

A MOLAR THEORY OF REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES

1978 • 175 citations

Animals' Choices over Uncertain Outcomes: Some Initial Experimental Results

1985 • 157 citations

On the Tradeoff Between the Mean and the Variance in Foraging: Effect of Spatial Distribution and Color Preference

1982 • 156 citations

A TEMPORAL LIMIT ON THE EFFECT OF FUTURE FOOD ON CURRENT PERFORMANCE IN AN ANALOGUE OF FORAGING AND WELFARE

1984 • 153 citations

SOME PROPERTIES OF SPACED RESPONDING IN PIGEONS¹

1965 • 130 citations

OPTIMIZATION VERSUS RESPONSE‐STRENGTH ACCOUNTS OF BEHAVIOR

1984 • 106 citations

Aspects of risk-aversion in foraging white-crowned sparrows

1982 • 103 citations

Foraging juncos: interaction of reward mean and variability

1985 • 86 citations

On Uncertainty and the Law of Diminishing Returns in Evolution and Behavior

1980 • 85 citations

Optimality Analyses of Operant Behavior and Their Relation to Optimal Foraging

1980 • 77 citations

Mathematics and Psychology

1969 • 71 citations

A Molar Equilibrium Theory of Learned Performance

1980 • 57 citations

Matching and maximizing accounts

1982 • 54 citations

Behavioral ecology of time allocation in California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi): Microhabitat effects.

1983 • 50 citations

Behavioral Resilience and Its Relation to Demand Functions

1980 • 48 citations

Preference for fixed vs. variable amounts of reward

1966 • 34 citations

Optimization: A Result or a Mechanism?

1983 • 32 citations

Operant regulation of feeding: A static analysis.

1983 • 26 citations

Operant regulation of feeding: A static analysis.

1983 • 26 citations

Bliss points vs. minimum needs: Tests of competing motivational models

1985 • 14 citations