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Richard Herrnstein

Psychology

#62

World Rank

#131

Historical Rank

#45

USA Rank

Cognitive Psychology

#70

World Rank

#72

Historical Rank

#31

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PhD Psychology University of Kansas

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Julius Herrnstein was an American psychologist at Harvard University. He was an active researcher in animal learning in the Skinnerian tradition. Herrnstein was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology until his death, and previously chaired the Harvard Department of Psychology for five years. With political scientist Charles Murray, he co-wrote The Bell Curve, a controversial 1994 book on human intelligence. He was one of the founders of the Society for Quantitative Analysis of Behavior.

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Richard Herrnstein's Published Works

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On the law of effect. (1970) (2812)
The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life (1995) (2709)
Relative and absolute strength of response as a function of frequency of reinforcement. (1961) (2257)
The Bell Curve (1994) (1391)
Crime and Human Nature (1985) (1170)
Preference Reversals Due to Myopic Discounting of Delayed Reward (1995) (562)
Choice and delay of reinforcement. (1967) (527)
Complex Visual Concept in the Pigeon (1964) (503)
Method and theory in the study of avoidance. (1969) (489)
Formal properties of the matching law. (1974) (465)
Rational Choice Theory Necessary but Not Sufficient (1990) (385)
Utility maximization and melioration: Internalities in individual choice (1993) (369)
Negative reinforcement as shock-frequency reduction. (1966) (331)
SECONDARY REINFORCEMENT AND RATE OF PRIMARY REINFORCEMENT. (1964) (327)
MAXIMIZING AND MATCHING ON CONCURRENT RATIO SCHEDULES1 (1975) (304)
Melioration: A Theory of Distributed Choice (1991) (297)
Levels of stimulus control: A functional approach (1990) (293)
Toward a law of response strength. (1976) (276)
APERIODICITY AS A FACTOR IN CHOICE. (1964) (267)
CHAPTER 5 – Melioration and Behavioral Allocation1 (1980) (254)
The evolution of behaviorism. (1977) (238)
Is matching compatible with reinforcement maximization on concurrent variable interval variable ratio? (1979) (236)
The effect on the preference-reversal phenomenon of using choice indifferences (1990) (220)
Placebo Effect in the Rat (1962) (191)
Maximizing and matching on concurrent ratio schedules. (1975) (167)
The Matching Law Papers in Psychology and Economics (1997) (159)
More on concurrent interval-ratio schedules: a replication and review. (1986) (158)
Maintenance of avoidance behavior by unavoidable shocks. (1957) (157)
Acquisition, generalization, and discrimination reversal of a natural concept. (1979) (148)
Fish as a Natural Category for People and Pigeons1 (1980) (132)
The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions (1995) (128)
Riddles of natural categorization (1985) (126)
Derivatives of Matching. (1979) (126)
Effects of pentobarbital on intermittently reinforced behavior. (1957) (116)
Behavior, Reinforcement and Utility (1990) (105)
Experiments on Stable Suboptimality in Individual Behavior (1991) (104)
Food-avoidance in hungry pigeons, and other perplexities. (1972) (100)
A source book in the history of psychology (1965) (100)
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life@@@Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life Perspective@@@The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions@@@The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America (1995) (92)
The bell curve :intelligence and class structure in americanlife (1995) (92)
A Theory of Addiction (1992) (89)
Hunger and contrast in a multiple schedule. (1974) (83)
Doing What Comes Naturally: A Reply to Professor Skinner. (1977) (82)
Avoidance, escape, and extinction as functions of shock intensity. (1959) (81)
Matching and maximizing accounts (1982) (75)
Method for Sensory Scaling with Animals (1962) (75)
I. Q. in the Meritocracy. (1974) (74)
Stereotypy and Intermittent Reinforcement (1961) (68)
The matching law (1997) (67)
SECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY: SOME FACTORS INFLUENCING BEHAVIOR IN A TWO‐RESPONSE SITUATION* (1958) (64)
The effects of deprivation upon temporally spaced responding. (1958) (64)
Quantitative hedonism. (1971) (63)
Avoidance conditioning as a factor in the effects of unavoidable shocks on food-reinforced behavior. (1958) (60)
Effects of scopolamine on a multiple schedule. (1958) (59)
MAKING UP OUR MINDS (1987) (52)
A CONJUNCTIVE SCHEDULE OF REINFORCEMENT1 (1958) (51)
EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON CHARACTERISTICS OF BEHAVIOR MAINTAINED BY COMPLEX SCHEDULES OF INTERMITTENT POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT (1956) (47)
Some effects of response-independent positive reinforcement on maintained operant behavior. (1957) (45)
A conjunctive schedule of reinforcement. (1958) (40)
Choosing among natural stimuli. (1987) (39)
Who Owns Intelligence? (2000) (35)
Teaching pigeons an abstract relational rule: Insideness (1989) (35)
Cumulative Record. A Selection of Papers. 3rd ed. (1973) (30)
INTERACTION AMONG COMPONENTS OF A MULTIPLE SCHEDULE1 (1958) (28)
What's Really behind the SAT-Score Decline?. (1992) (26)
On the functions relating delay, reinforcer value, and behavior (1988) (25)
Interaction among components of a multiple schedule. (1958) (25)
SECONDARY REINFORCEMENT AND NUMBER OF PRIMARY REINFORCEMENTS1 (1968) (24)
Secondary reinforcement and number of primary reinforcements. (1968) (21)
Selective action of pentobarbital on component behaviors of a reinforcement schedule. (1956) (21)
Discriminating figure from ground: the role of edge detection and region growing. (1987) (20)
A first law for behavioral analysis (1981) (19)
Stimuli and the texture of experience (1982) (19)
On Challenging an Orthodoxy. (1973) (17)
Nature as nurture : Behaviorism and the instinct doctrine (1998) (16)
Timing in free-operant and discrete-trial avoidance. (1970) (14)
Matching in a network. (1976) (13)
Galton Redux: Eugenics, Intelligence, Race, and Society: A Review of the Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. (1995) (12)
Still an American Dilemma. (1990) (11)
Some Criminogenic Traits of Offenders (1989) (11)
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Challenge to the Relevance of Sociology for the Etiology of Criminal Behavior@@@Crime and Human Nature. (1987) (9)
The Apparent Reduction of Loudness: A Repeat Experiment (1955) (7)
Reminiscences already? (1987) (6)
Riding The Bell Curve: A Review (1995) (5)
Whatever happened to vaudeville? A reply to Professor Chomsky (1972) (5)
Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Volume IV. Discrimination Processes (1985) (5)
Design and Evaluation Issues in an Experiment on Teaching Thinking Skills (1988) (4)
Konrad Lorenz: The man and his ideas. (1976) (3)
Lost and Found: One Self (1988) (2)
Reply to Binmore and Staddon. (1991) (2)
Laboratory Experiments in Psychology (1965) (1)
A figure in psychology. (1979) (1)
Effects of Pentobarbital on Intermittently Reinforced Behavior (1957) (1)
AN INTEGRATOR WITH PUNCHED FILM FOR INTERLOCKING SCHEDULES. (1964) (1)
Integrative Anti-Classism: Race y Gender and Class (1995) (1)
Biology can use trained animals (1972) (1)
IQ encounters with the press (1983) (1)
Apparent Reduction of Loudness: A Repeat Experiment (1959) (1)
Who are the Great psychologists (1964) (1)
Controversy: I.Q.: Measurement of race and class? (1973) (1)
Comments on Professor Layzer's 'science or superstition (1972) (1)
Is anybody listening (1985) (1)
THE BLACK SCHOLAR Symposium: A Critique of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1995) (1)
Memorial Minute for B. F. Skinner (1994) (1)
Try again, Dr. Albee. (1981) (1)
Broadbent, Hilary A., 55 Caramazza, Alfonso, 243 Cheney, Dorothy L., 167 (1990) (0)
Crime and human nature revisited: A response to Bonn and Smith (1988) (0)
With Tolerance, for Teachers. (1964) (0)
Response to Heiner (1984) (0)
Evolutionary and behavioral stability (1984) (0)
AS NURTURE : BEHAVIORISM AND THE INSTINCT DOCTRINE (2000) (0)
I. Q.: social goals and the genetic heresy. (1973) (0)
Education, SES, and Their Effects. (1973) (0)
Heredity. Today's Delinquent, Volume 7. (1988) (0)
Importance of Being Important (1968) (0)
Old world history. (1969) (0)
Students; *Economic Factors; Educational Experience; Higher Education; *Intelligence; Poverty; *Racial Differences; Social Class; Socioeconomic Status; Student Surveys; Technical Institutes; Urban Schools (1999) (0)
A New Look at Motivation. (1960) (0)
Vertebrate social organization Benchmark papers in animal behavior, Vol 8. (1977) (0)
And Two Anonymous Reviewers for Their Excellent Advice and Comments; to the Logic of Social Exchange That Humans Reason Using " Pragmatic Reasoning Scnemas That Were Induced through Recurrent Experience within Goal-defined Domains. on This View, The (0)
Second thoughts on Wolman. (1961) (0)
Harvard in the Act (2002) (0)

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