Psychic cost of adaptation to an environmental stressor.

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

Explorations in Cognitive Dissonance.

Louis Schneider, Jack W. Brehm, Arthur R. Cohen · American Sociological Review · 1963 · 366 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +5

The relationship of persistence at a task to expectation of success and achievement related motives.

N. T. Feather · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1961 · 272 citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology +11

Autonomic and muscular responses, and their relation to simple stimuli.

Robert C. Davis, Alexander M. Buchwald, R. W . Frankmann · The Psychological Monographs · 1955 · 203 citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Physiology +12

The need to predict and control under conditions of threat1

Lawrence A. Pervin · Journal of Personality · 1963 · 200 citations

Business, Risk Management, Forecasting +7