Learned helplessness: Effects of response requirement and interval between treatment and testing

Learned helplessness: Theory and evidence.

Steven F. Maier, Martin E. P. Seligman · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1976 · 2.4K citations

Education, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +8

Failure to escape traumatic shock.

Martin E. P. Seligman, Steven F. Maier · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1967 · 1.9K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Biological Psychology +8

Selection by Consequences

B. F. Skinner · Science · 1981 · 1.7K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +7

A functional analysis of depression.

C. B. Ferster · American Psychologist · 1973 · 907 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +8

Behavioral depression produced by an uncontrollable stressor: Relationship to norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin levels in various regions of rat brain

Jay M. Weiss, Prudence A. Goodman, Barbara G. Losito et al. · Brain Research Reviews · 1981 · 666 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17