Leon Kamin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leon J. Kamin was an American psychologist known for his contributions to learning theory and his critique of estimates of the heritability of IQ. He studied under Richard Solomon at Harvard and contributed several important ideas about conditioning, including the "blocking effect".
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- Predictability, surprise, attention, and conditioning (1967) (1655)
- Attention-like processes in classical conditioning (1967) (888)
- The Science and Politics of IQ (1975) (739)
- Not in Our Genes. Biology, Ideology and Human Nature. Harmondsworth (Penguin) 1984. (1984) (587)
- The conditioned emotional response as a function of intensity of the US. (1961) (569)
- Traumatic avoidance learning: the outcomes of several extinction procedures with dogs. (1953) (448)
- The retention of an incompletely learned avoidance response. (1957) (290)
- The science and politics of I.Q. (1974) (286)
- Conditioned suppression as a monitor of fear of the CS in the course of avoidance training. (1963) (246)
- The effects of termination of the CS and avoidance of the US on avoidance learning. (1956) (146)
- Behind the Curve (1995) (138)
- Retention of an incompletely learned avoidance response: some further analyses. (1963) (126)
- Traumatic avoidance learning: the effects of CS-US interval with a trace-conditioning procedure. (1954) (113)
- The Intelligence Controversy (1981) (96)
- Intelligence : the battle for the mind (1981) (76)
- The delay-of-punishment gradient. (1959) (71)
- Inbreeding depression and IQ. (1980) (70)
- Effects of conditioned stimulus intensity on the conditioned emotional response. (1963) (66)
- The truly random control procedure: Associative or nonassociative effects in rats. (1971) (66)
- Twin studies in behavioral research: a skeptical view. (2002) (65)
- Trace conditioning of the conditioned emotional response. (1961) (57)
- Apparent adaptation effects in the acquisition of a conditioned emotional response. (1961) (56)
- Disinhibition, habituation, sensitization, and the conditioned emotional response. (1963) (53)
- The gradient of delay of secondary reward in avoidance learning. (1957) (47)
- The effects of intensity of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli on a conditioned emotional response. (1963) (47)
- Compound conditioned emotional response conditioning with differentially salient elements in rats. (1974) (40)
- Ethnic and party affiliations of candidates as determinants of voting. (1958) (38)
- Differential changes in mental abilities in old age. (1957) (35)
- The gradient of delay of secondary reward in avoidance learning tested on avoidance trials only. (1957) (30)
- Backward conditioning and the conditioned emotional response. (1963) (28)
- Two determinants of the emergence of anticipatory avoidance. (1959) (22)
- A Positive Interpretation of Apparent "Cumulative Deficit.". (1978) (21)
- The effects of termination of the CS and avoidance of the US on avoidance learning: an extension. (1957) (19)
- African IQ and Mental Retardation (2006) (18)
- Race, Head Size, and Intelligence (1998) (17)
- Fear of the CS in avoidance training and fear from a sense of helplessness. (1963) (14)
- Comment on Munsinger's review of adoption studies. (1978) (14)
- The Taylor scale and reaction time. (1957) (13)
- Acquisition of avoidance with a variable CS-US INTERVAL. (1960) (12)
- The Taylor scale, hunger, and verbal learning. (1957) (11)
- Relations between discrimination, apparatus stress, and the Taylor scale. (1955) (10)
- What Do Intelligence Tests Measure (1981) (10)
- Transfusion syndrome and the heritability of IQ (1978) (10)
- Blackness, deafness, IQ, and g (1993) (9)
- Sex Differences in Susceptibility of IQ to Environmental Influence. (1978) (9)
- Mental testing and immigration. (1982) (8)
- The interrelations among some behavioural measures of anxiety. (1955) (8)
- Social and legal consequences of I.Q. tests as classification instruments: Some warnings from our past☆ (1975) (8)
- IQ : THE RANK ORDERING OF THE WORLD (2007) (7)
- Two Effects of An “Anxiety-Eliciting” CS on Human Reaction Latency (1959) (7)
- The Hawaii family study of cognitive abilities: A comment (1978) (7)
- Reaction time, race, and racism (1987) (6)
- Comment on Munsinger's adoption study (1977) (5)
- Configural conditioning in the CER: A possible artifact (1978) (5)
- Text of Dr. Kamin's Presentation Denying That Proof Exists That IQ Test Scores Are Hereditary. (1973) (5)
- The Cyril Burt Affair (1981) (5)
- Configural-like effects observed in the course of second-order conditioning in rats☆ (1977) (5)
- Some Historical Facts About IQ Testing (1981) (4)
- The Misuse of IQ Testing (1973) (4)
- CS-Termination as a Factor in the Emergence of Anticipatory Avoidance (1959) (3)
- Putting Genes in Their Place (1985) (3)
- The Politics of IQ. (1975) (2)
- A reply to Munsinger (1977) (2)
- Where Does the Concept Come From (1981) (2)
- MZ and DZ Twins (1981) (1)
- Explaining the Fluctuation in Black Student Test Scores. (1995) (1)
- Racial and Cultural Factors (1981) (1)
- Selective migration—Again (1980) (1)
- Getting Away With Murder and a Nobel Prize (1999) (1)
- The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life By Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. Free Press, 1994 (2019) (1)
- Pursuit rotor performance (1977) (1)
- The Flynn Effect in IQ Testing: Why It's Important to African Americans. (1998) (1)
- Rejoinder to Kamin (1981) (1)
- IQ Tests as Instruments of Oppression--From Immigation Quotas to Welfare. (1973) (1)
- Twin Studies , Heritability , and Intelligence Letters from : (2003) (1)
- The Science and Politics of I. Q.: A Review Article (1976) (1)
- The measurement of anxiety: a methodological note. (1957) (1)
- Weathering reviews by outside consultants in the era of patient-focused care. (1994) (0)
- Review: Why Race Matters (1998) (0)
- The Influence of Environment (1981) (0)
- Intelligence and Achievement (1981) (0)
- The Racial Fanatic at City College of New York (1997) (0)
- Rejoinder to Eysenck (1981) (0)
- Studies of Adopted Children (1981) (0)
- Kamin on Thompson's Review of Herrnstein. (1974) (0)
- The Myth of the Black Superman (2001) (0)
- Special Factors: Regression and Mating Systems (1981) (0)
- Is Intelligence Inherited (1981) (0)
- Kinship Correlations and the Modelling Game (1981) (0)
- Social Consequences of IQ Measurement (1981) (0)
- How IQ Research Serves a Political Function (1996) (0)
- Sex, Age and Intelligence (1981) (0)
- Separated Identical Twins (1981) (0)
- What are Intelligence Tests (1981) (0)
- Is IQ Heritable (1975) (0)
- Facts, Wishes and Eysenck’s References (1981) (0)
- Biological Measurement of IQ (1981) (0)
- Some Odds and Ends (1981) (0)
- Does Schizophrenia have a substantial genetic component (2008) (0)
- Problems of Voluntarism Require Many Solutions (1978) (0)
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