The achievement motive and recall of interrupted and completed tasks.

Personality and Psychotherapy

Rudolph E. Morris, John Dollard, Neal E. Miller · The American Catholic Sociological Review · 1951 · 1.2K citations

Statistical Analysis in Educational Research

Harold A. Edgerton, E. F. Lindquist · The American Journal of Psychology · 1941 · 501 citations

Natural Sciences, Biostatistics, Educational Measurement +13

The projective expression of needs. IV. The effect of the need for achievement on thematic apperception.

David C. McClelland, Russell A. Clark, Thornton B. Roby et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1949 · 126 citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology +3

THE EFFECT OF NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT ON RECOGNITION OF NEED-RELATED WORDS1

David C. McClelland, Alvin M. Liberman · Journal of Personality · 1949 · 99 citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Cognitive Psychology +10

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