The relationship of anxiety to the conditioned eyelid response.

On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other

H. B. Mann, Douglas R. Whitney · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1947 · 13.9K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +11

Principles of Behavior

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

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

The determiners of behavior at a choice point.

E. C. Tolman · Psychological Review · 1938 · 536 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Animal Behavior +7

Drive interaction: I. Learning as a function of the simultaneous presence of the hunger and thirst drives.

Howard H. Kendler · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1945 · 55 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +16