The secondary reinforcing value of food for thirsty animals.

Principles of Behavior

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

SOME RAPID APPROXIMATE STATISTICAL PROCEDURES

Frank Wilcoxon · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1950 · 1.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Biostatistics, Mathematics +10

Motivational properties of frustration: I. Effect on a running response of the addition of frustration to the motivational complex.

Abram Amsel, Jacqueline Roussel · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1952 · 460 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +6

Preliminary suggestions as to a formalization of expectancy theory.

Kenneth MacCorquodale, Paul E. Meehl · Psychological Review · 1953 · 89 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +5

New statistical criteria for learning and problem solution in experiments involving repeated trials.

Psychological Bulletin · 1946 · 75 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Biostatistics +14