Howard Rachlin

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Howard Rachlin is affiliated with the following schools: Stony Brook University, The New School, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Howard Rachlin was an American psychologist and the founder of teleological behaviorism. He was Emeritus Research Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University in New York. His initial work was in the quantitative analysis of operant behavior in pigeons, on which he worked with William M. Baum, developing ideas from Richard Herrnstein's matching law. He subsequently became one of the founders of Behavioral Economics.

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Subjective probability and delay. (1991) (1295)
Commitment, choice and self-control. (1972) (1204)
Choice as time allocation. (1969) (718)
The Science of Self-Control (2004) (645)
Maximization theory in behavioral psychology (1981) (567)
Self-control: Beyond commitment. (1995) (374)
Cognition and behavior in studies of choice (1986) (326)
Social Discounting (2006) (310)
Economic Demand Theory and Psychological Studies of Choice1 (1976) (309)
Notes on discounting. (2006) (302)
On the tautology of the matching law. (1971) (272)
Pain and behavior (1985) (263)
Contrast and Matching. (1973) (261)
Why do People Gamble and Keep Gambling despite Heavy Losses? (1990) (256)
Judgment, Decision, and Choice: A Cognitive/Behavioral Synthesis (1989) (242)
Behavior and learning (1976) (225)
The effect of temporal constraints on the value of money and other commodities (1993) (224)
Effects of alternative reinforcement: does the source matter? (1972) (222)
Introduction to modern behaviorism (1970) (178)
Social Discounting and Delay Discounting (2008) (172)
A molar theory of reinforcement schedules. (1978) (169)
Altruism and selfishness (2002) (168)
The Matching Law Papers in Psychology and Economics (1997) (159)
Delay, probability, and social discounting in a public goods game. (2009) (154)
The temporal triangle: Response substitution in instrumental conditioning (1978) (150)
Substitutability in time allocation. (1980) (147)
Altruism among relatives and non-relatives (2008) (145)
Behavior and Mind: The Roots of Modern Psychology (1994) (138)
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF CONSUMER DEMAND BEHAVIOR USING LABORATORY ANIMALS (1975) (118)
Commodity-Choice Behavior with Pigeons as Subjects (1981) (112)
Real and hypothetical rewards in self-control and social discounting (2011) (110)
Discounting in judgments of delay and probability. (2000) (101)
Demand Curves for Animal Consumers (1981) (98)
Economic substitutability of electrical brain stimulation, food, and water. (1991) (94)
Real and hypothetical rewards. (2011) (78)
Temporal Patterning in Probabilistic Choice (1994) (77)
Matching and maximizing accounts (1982) (75)
Four teleological theories of addiction (1997) (73)
Escape and avoidance of shock by pigeons pecking a key. (1969) (72)
Probability and delay in commitment. (1987) (71)
Sensitivity of pigeons to prereinforcer and postreinforcer delay (1985) (70)
Indifference between punishment and free shock: evidence for the negative law of effect. (1968) (68)
Response rate as a function of amount of reinforcement for a signalled concurrent response. (1969) (66)
Is there a decisive test between matching and maximizing? (1988) (65)
Self-Reward, Self-Monitoring, and Self-Punishment as Feedback in Weight Control (1980) (64)
From overt behavior to hypothetical behavior to memory: Inference in the wrong direction (1994) (64)
Temporal Patterning in Choice among Delayed Outcomes (1996) (63)
Reinforcing and punishing thoughts (1977) (60)
Choice architecture: A review of why nudge: The politics of libertarian paternalism (2015) (57)
Soft commitment: self-control achieved by response persistence. (1995) (56)
Probability of reciprocation in repeated prisoner's dilemma games (2001) (56)
Scaling subjective velocity, distance, and duration (1966) (54)
JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR (2005) (53)
Diminishing marginal value as delay discounting. (1992) (53)
The effect of rotation on the learning of taste aversions (1973) (52)
A behavioral analysis of altruism (2011) (52)
The Value of Temporal Patterns in Behavior (1995) (51)
The context of pigeon and human choice (1993) (51)
Behavior, Cognition and Theories of Choice (1978) (51)
Prior Experience and Patterning in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game (1998) (49)
Autoshaping of key pecking in pigeons with negative reinforcement. (1969) (49)
Recovery of responses during mild punishment. (1966) (48)
Matching and maximizing with concurrent ratio-interval schedules. (1983) (48)
Self-control and social cooperation (1999) (47)
About teleological behaviorism (2013) (45)
Social discounting and the prisoner's dilemma game. (2013) (43)
Now for Me, Later for Us? Effects of Group Context on Temporal Discounting. (2013) (42)
Training and Maintenance of Keypecking in the Pigeon by Negative Reinforcement (1967) (42)
The effect of punishment, extinction, and satiation on response chains (1970) (39)
CHAPTER 7 – Economies and Behavioral Psychology1 (1980) (39)
Mental, yes. Private, no. (1984) (36)
Economic and biological influences on a pigeon's key peck. (1975) (36)
The Escape of the Mind (2014) (35)
Pigeons' preferences for stimulus information: effects of amount of information. (1977) (35)
Learned taste aversions in rats as a function of delay, speed, and duration of rotation ☆ (1976) (35)
Rule-governed versus contingency-governed behavior in a self-control task: effects of changes in contingencies (2002) (32)
Teaching and learning in a probabilistic prisoner's dilemma (2002) (32)
Commitment using punishment. (1996) (31)
In what sense are addicts irrational? (2007) (30)
Test of an electric-shock analog to illness-induced aversion. (1972) (29)
Choice, rate of response, and rate of gambling (1969) (28)
The effect of shock intensity on concurrent and single-key responding in concurrent-chain schedules. (1967) (28)
Eating and drinking: An economic analysis. (1983) (28)
Reinforcement and punishment in the prisoner's dilemma game (2000) (27)
The lonely addict. (2000) (27)
Comment on Heyman and Luce: “Operant matching is not a logical consequence of maximizing reinforcement rate” (1979) (27)
The influence of prior choices on current choice. (2006) (26)
CHAPTER 8 – Consumer Demand Theory Applied to Choice Behavior of Rats1 (1980) (26)
Behavioral economics without anomalies. (1995) (26)
Self-control by pigeons in the prisoner's dilemma (2002) (26)
Behaviorism in everyday life (1980) (25)
Absolute and relative consumption space. (1982) (24)
Making IBM’s computer, Watson, human (2012) (24)
Learning theory in its niche (1981) (23)
Lotteries and the Time Horizon (1994) (23)
A REVIEW OF M. J. MAHONEY'S Cognition and Behavior Modification1 (1977) (23)
Contingencies of reinforcement in a five-person prisoner's dilemma. (2004) (23)
Learning by pigeons playing against tit-for-tat in an operant prisoner’s dilemma (2003) (20)
The Temporal Dynamics of Cooperation. (2012) (19)
Baum’s private thoughts (2011) (18)
Valuing rewards to others in a prisoner's dilemma game (2013) (17)
How nondirective therapy directs: The power of empathy in the context of unconditional positive regard (2012) (17)
Theory-theory theory (1993) (16)
Economic Concepts in the Behavioral Study of Addiction (2003) (16)
Social Cooperation and Self‐control (2016) (16)
The attraction of gambling. (2015) (15)
Altruism and anonymity: A behavioral analysis (2015) (14)
On the directionality of key pecking during signals for appetitive and aversive events (1977) (14)
The Extended Self (2010) (14)
Discounting by Probabilistic Waiting (2017) (13)
Group selection in behavioral evolution (2017) (12)
RATIONAL THOUGHT AND RATIONAL BEHAVIOR: A REVIEW OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY: THE ADAPTIVE TOOLBOX (2003) (12)
TAKING PRAGMATISM SERIOUSLY: A REVIEW OF WILLIAM BAUM'S UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIORISM: BEHAVIOR, CULTURE, AND EVOLUTION (SECOND EDITION) (2009) (12)
Self-Control Based on Soft Commitment (2016) (12)
The Behavioral Economics of Violence (2004) (12)
Notes on fixed-ratio and fixed-interval escape responding in the pigeon. (1969) (11)
IS THE MIND IN THE BRAIN? A REVIEW OF: OUT OF OUR HEADS: WHY YOU ARE NOT YOUR BRAIN, AND OTHER LESSONS FROM THE BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS BY ALVA NOË (2009) (2012) (11)
Can We Leave Cognition to Cognitive Psychologists? Comments on an Article by George Loewenstein (1996) (11)
Shaping behavioral patterns. (2013) (11)
Maximization theory vindicated (1981) (11)
An animal model of dyadic social interaction: Influence of isolation, competition, and shock‐induced aggression (1982) (11)
Free will from the viewpoint of teleological behaviorism. (2007) (10)
WHAT MÜLLER'S LAW OF SPECIFIC NERVE ENERGIES SAYS ABOUT THE MIND (2005) (9)
Teleological behaviorism. (1992) (9)
Commitment and self-control in a prisoner's dilemma game. (2012) (9)
RESPONSE CONTROL WITH TITRATION OF PUNISHMENT1 (1972) (9)
In Defense of Teleological Behaviorism (2017) (9)
How to decide between matching and maximizing: A reply to Prelec. (1983) (9)
Reciprocation and altruism in social cooperation (2015) (9)
Self-Control and Altruism (2013) (8)
AUTONOMY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM (2003) (7)
A ratio scale for social distance. (2020) (6)
Titration of punishment (1971) (6)
A Behavioral Science of Mental Life: Comments on Foxall's "Intentional Behaviorism" (2007) (5)
Is talking to yourself thinking? (2018) (5)
Burrhus Frederic Skinner - March 20, 1904-August 18, 1990. (1995) (5)
Cui bono? A review of breaking the spell: religion as a natural phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett. (2007) (5)
Reinforcing and punishing thoughts: A rejoinder to Ellis and Mahoney (1977) (5)
Classical conditioning and operant conditioning: A response pattern analysis (1979) (5)
Temporal molarity in behavior (1986) (4)
Altruism is a form of self-control (2002) (4)
Who cares if the chimpanzee has a theory of mind? (1978) (4)
Reinforcement and punishment in a closed system (1978) (4)
HOW SHOULD WE BEHAVE? A REVIEW OF REASONS AND PERSONS BY DEREK PARFIT (2010) (4)
Problems with internalization (2005) (4)
Shaping the Coherent Self: A Moral Achievement (2010) (4)
Philosophical behaviorism: a review of things that happen because they should: a teleological approach to action, by Rowland Stout. (1999) (3)
Behavioral Medicine’s Roots in Behaviorism: Concepts and Applications (2018) (3)
8 – Teleological Behaviorism (1999) (3)
Variable-interval and fixed-interval schedule preferences in pigeons as a function of signaled reinforcement and schedule length (1976) (3)
Is it possible that pain is one thing? (1986) (3)
Response control with titration of punishment. (1972) (3)
Rate, probability and matching: comments on "The identities hidden in the matching laws, and their uses" by David Thorne. (2010) (2)
The concept of leisure in maximization theory (1983) (2)
The cognitive laboratory, the library and the Skinner box (1991) (2)
The amount effect and marginal value. (2015) (2)
Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self-Control (2010) (2)
The teleological science of self-control (1997) (1)
Biological evolution and behavioral evolution: two approaches to altruism. (2013) (1)
Addiction and Altruism (2010) (1)
Pain and behavior after 25 years (2010) (1)
Optimality and Aristotle's concept of final cause (1993) (1)
The Law of Specific Nerve Energies (Müller) (2014) (1)
Our overt behavior makes us human (2012) (1)
The behaviorist reply (Stony Brook) (1980) (1)
The purdue review: How? and why? (1992) (1)
Minds, pains, and performance (1982) (1)
Remembering richard schuster. (2018) (1)
An Important First Step, but Not the Last Word on Rule-Governed Behavior and OBM (1993) (1)
Addiction as social choice (2016) (1)
Skinner (1938) and Skinner (1945) (2018) (1)
Autonomy: Autonomy from the Viewpoint of Teleological Behaviorism (2003) (1)
Journey into the interior of the organism (1979) (0)
Teleological Analysis of Altruism and Self-Control (2014) (0)
BMI: ANNOUNCEMENT (SQAB 2003) (2003) (0)
The Unchanged Mind of a Stubborn Behaviorist. (1991) (0)
The Division of Mind and Body (Saint Augustine) (2014) (0)
Learning rules and learning rules (1984) (0)
A Guide Through the Jungle of Animal Learning. (1977) (0)
A handy but heavy reference book. (1978) (0)
The Re-emergence of the Mind (2014) (0)
Remarks on Catania (1981) (2012) (0)
Body and Mind (Aristotle) (2014) (0)
Mapping Knowledge and Ignorance. (1990) (0)
A Lively Ride on a Merry-Go-Round. (1991) (0)
Self-control observed (1995) (0)
The International stance faces backward (1983) (0)
A (Stubborn) Refusal to Return to Introspectionism. (1980) (0)
Only external representations are needed (1988) (0)
Scepticism unleashed: A response to Rollin (1986) (0)
The Imprisonment of the Mind (Descartes) (2014) (0)
A Framework for Scientific Psychology. (2002) (0)
Book reviewxiii+256 Pp. $4.50 Skinner B.F., About Behaviorism, Knopf, New York (1974) (1975) (0)
The Evolution of Altruism and Self-Control (2014) (0)
The uses of self-deception (1997) (0)
Comments on Burgos' Antidualism and Antimentalism in Radical Behaviorism/reply to Burgos (2016) (0)
In-group bias is a kind of egoistic incentive (1989) (0)
The Invention of the Mind (Plato) (2014) (0)
Suffering as a behaviourist views it (1990) (0)
Self-Control Based on Soft Commitment (2016) (0)
NOTES ON FIXED-RA TIO AND FIXED-INTER VAL ESCAPE RESPONDING IN THE PIGEON1 2 (2006) (0)
Two cheers for behavioral momentum (2000) (0)
Commentary/Dennett: Intentional systems in cognitive ethology (2014) (0)
Contributors (2012) (0)
JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR RECOVERY OF RESPONSES DURING MILD PUNISHMENT" (2005) (0)
Ghostbusting (1985) (0)
Skinner and the Philosophers. (1979) (0)
Consciousness and Behavior (2014) (0)

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