Positive Reinforcement

Positive Reinforcement is a behavior-analytic procedure involving the contingent presentation of a reinforcing stimulus following a target behavior, thereby increasing the future probability of that behavior.

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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

Julian B. Rotter · The Psychological Monographs · 1966 · 21.9K citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +7

A theory of Pavlovian conditioning : Variations in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement

Robert A. Rescorla · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1972 · 7.2K citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions.

Johannés Siegrist · Journal of Occupational Health Psychology · 1996 · 4.4K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain.

Peter Milner · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1954 · 3.1K citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

A model for Pavlovian learning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli.

John M. Pearce, Geoffrey Hall · Psychological Review · 1980 · 3K citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +17

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Wayne W. Fisher
Kennedy Krieger Institute, United States
48 publications · 5.3K citations
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Brian A. Iwata
University of Florida, United States
28 publications · 4K citations
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Timothy A. Shahan
Utah State University, United States
31 publications · 1.5K citations
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John A. Nevin
University of New Hampshire at Manchester, United States
27 publications · 4.5K citations
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Edmund Fantino
University of California San Diego, United States
24 publications · 2.1K citations
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