The partial reinforcement effect sustained through blocks of continuous reinforcement.

The role of frustrative nonreward in noncontinuous reward situations.

Abram Amsel · Psychological Bulletin · 1958 · 1.3K citations

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Habit strength as a function of the pattern of reinforcement.

O. Hobart Mowrer, Helen M.F. Jones · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1945 · 256 citations

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The psychological effects of insufficient rewards.

Léon Festinger · American Psychologist · 1961 · 102 citations

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Secondary Reinforcement and the Discrimination Hypothesis

M. E. Bitterman, W. E. Feddersen, D. W. Tyler · The American Journal of Psychology · 1953 · 82 citations

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Resistance to extinction as a function of continuous or intermittent presentation of a training cue.

Melvin H. Marx · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1958 · 21 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +13