Conditioned fear as revealed by magnitude of startle response to an auditory stimulus.

Principles of Behavior

B. F. Skinner, Clark L. Hull · The American Journal of Psychology · 1944 · 4.1K citations

Social Learning and Imitation

Neal E. Miller, d Dollar · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1944 · 1.4K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +12

Some quantitative properties of anxiety.

W. K. Estes, B. F. Skinner · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1941 · 1.4K citations

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A stimulus-response analysis of anxiety and its role as a reinforcing agent.

O. Hobart Mowrer · Psychological Review · 1939 · 732 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +14

Studies of fear as an acquirable drive: I. Fear as motivation and fear-reduction as reinforcement in the learning of new responses.

Neal E. Miller · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1948 · 537 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12