The effect of success and failure upon the attractiveness of activities as a function of experience, expectation, and need.

The ego in contemporary psychology.

Gordon W. Āllport · Psychological Review · 1943 · 322 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10

A theoretical interpretation of shifts in level of aspiration.

Léon Festinger · Psychological Review · 1942 · 155 citations

Medicine, Change Management, Pattern Formation +2

Individual Differences in Certain Aspects of the Level of Aspiration

Jerome D. Frank · The American Journal of Psychology · 1935 · 128 citations

Education, Psychology, Individual Differences +4

An experimental study of 'repression' with special reference to need-persistive and ego-defensive reactions to frustration.

S. Rosenzweig · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1943 · 86 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +9

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MEMORY IN RELATION TO THE THEORY OF REPRESSION

Saül Rosenzweig, G.J. Mason · British Journal of Psychology General Section · 1934 · 64 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10