Establishment of praise as a conditioned reinforcer in socially unresponsive psychiatric patients.

Preliminary report on the application of contingent reinforcement procedures (token economy) on a "chronic" psychiatric ward.

John M. Atthowe, Leonard Krasner · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · 1968 · 206 citations

Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry +10

Building social behavior in autistic children by use of electric shock.

O. Ivar Lövaas, Benson Schaeffer, James Q. Simmons · 1965 · 166 citations

Education, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Establishment of social reinforcers in two schizophrenic children on the basis of food

O. Ivar Lövaas, Gilbert Freitag, Melvyn I. Kinder et al. · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 1966 · 144 citations

Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology +9

THE EFFECTS OF REINFORCEMENT ON THE MODIFICATION, MAINTENANCE, AND GENERALIZATION OF SOCIAL RESPONSES OF MENTAL PATIENTS¹

Richard J. Kale, James H. Kaye, P. A. Whelan et al. · Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis · 1968 · 72 citations · Full text

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +14

Verbal reinforcement in schizophrenia.

Edwin Cohen, Bertram D. Cohen · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1960 · 34 citations

Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology +10