Richard Herrnstein

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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.

Published Works

• Complex Visual Concept in the Pigeon
• Method and theory in the study of avoidance.
• Utility maximization and melioration: Internalities in individual choice
• Rational choice theory: Necessary but not sufficient.
• Natural concepts in pigeons.
• Levels of stimulus control: A functional approach
• Toward a law of response strength.
• Preference reversal and delayed reinforcement
• The evolution of behaviorism.
• Melioration: A Theory of Distributed Choice
Melioration and Behavioral Allocation
Placebo Effect in the Rat
The effect on the preference-reversal phenomenon of using choice indifferences
Maintenance of avoidance behavior by unavoidable shocks.
Derivatives of matching.
Effects of Pentobarbital on Intermittently Reinforced Behavior
Doing what comes naturally: A reply to Professor Skinner.
Method for Sensory Scaling with Animals
Some effects of response-independent positive reinforcement on maintained operant behavior.
Avoidance, escape, and extinction as functions of shock intensity.
Stereotypy and Intermittent Reinforcement
Avoidance conditioning as a factor in the effects of unavoidable shocks on food-reinforced behavior.
Quantitative hedonism
Acquisition, generalization, and discrimination reversal of a natural concept.
EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON CHARACTERISTICS OF BEHAVIOR MAINTAINED BY COMPLEX SCHEDULES OF INTERMITTENT POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
Feedback functions for reinforcement: A paradigmatic experiment
Discriminating figure from ground: the role of edge detection and region growing.
Fish as a Natural Category for People and Pigeons
Intelligence tests and the Immigration Act of 1924.
Teaching pigeons an abstract relational rule: Insideness
Selective Action of Pentobarbital on Component Behaviors of a Reinforcement Schedule
Stimuli and the texture of experience
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Challenge to the Relevance of Sociology for the Etiology of Criminal Behavior
The Apparent Reduction of Loudness: A Repeat Experiment
Comments on Professor Layzer's 'science or superstition
Design and evaluation issues in an experiment on teaching thinking skills.
Reply to Binmore and Staddon.
KAMIN ERRS … HERRNSTEIN
Slouching toward Crime
Some Criminogenic Traits of Offenders
Grundriß der Psychologie
Is anybody listening?
HERRNSTEIN REPLIES
Who Are the Great Psychologists?
Lost and Found: One SelfThe Multiple Self. Jon Elster
Einführung
Sprache
Die Messung der relativen kognitiven Befähigung: Der IQ
Persönlichkeit
Psychotherapie
Motivation I
Motivation II
Lernen
Handeln und Werte in der menschlichen Gesellschaft
Aggression: Von der weißen Maus zum amerikanischen Soldaten
Moralisches Urteil und Verhalten
Sensorische Wahrnehmung
Einfache mentale Vorgänge
Controversy
Whatever happened to vaudeville? A reply to Professor Chomsky
Response to Heiner
QUANTITATIVE HEDONISM
Try again, Dr. Albee.
Review of Cumulative Record. A Selection of Papers. 3rd ed.
Education, SES, and Their Effects.
A New Look at Motivation
SECOND THOUGHTS ON WOLMAN
With Tolerance, for Teachers
Old World History
Konrad Lorenz: The man and his ideas.
Review of Vertebrate social organization Benchmark papers in animal behavior, Vol 8.
Avoidance conditioning as a factor in the effects of unavoidable shocks on food-reinforced behavior
Maintenance of avoidance behavior by unavoidable shocks
Retention of a temporal discrimination in pigeons
Letters
Apparent Reduction of Loudness: A Repeat Experiment
Importance of Being Important
A Figure in Psychology
Crime and Human Nature
Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Volume IV. Discrimination Processes
I. Q. in the Meritocracy.
I. Q. in the Meritocracy.
I. Q. in the Meritocracy.
I. Q. in the Meritocracy.
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Schools

City College of New York

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Harvard University

Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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