Robert Epstein

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Robert Epstein is affiliated with the following schools: Boston University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of California, San Diego, University of the South Pacific, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Epstein is an American psychologist, professor, author, and journalist. He was awarded a Ph.D. in psychology by Harvard University in 1981, was editor in chief of Psychology Today, and has held positions at several universities including Boston University, University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. He is also the founder and director emeritus of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Concord, MA. In 2012, he founded the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology , a nonprofit organization that conducts research to promote the well-being and functioning of people worldwide.

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The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections (2015) (366)
Mammals Presumed Most Useful. (Book Reviews: The Origin of the Domestic Animals of Africa) (1971) (346)
‘Insight’ in the pigeon: antecedents and determinants of an intelligent performance (1984) (341)
"Self-awareness" in the pigeon. (1981) (262)
Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons, (Columba livia domestica) (1980) (229)
Distributed query processing in a relational data base system (1978) (227)
Extinction-Induced Resurgence: Preliminary Investigations And Possible Applications (1985) (184)
Resurgence of previously reinforced behavior during extinction. (1983) (184)
Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer (2008) (135)
Skinner, Creativity, and the Problem of Spontaneous Behavior (1991) (86)
Measuring and Training Creativity Competencies: Validation of a New Test (2008) (82)
Patterns of Program Evaluation Practice Among Members of the Evaluation Research Society and Evaluation Network (1987) (82)
Resurgence of responding after the cessation of response-independent reinforcement. (1980) (78)
On pigeons and people: A preliminary look at the Columban Simulation Project (1981) (73)
The Quest for the Thinking Computer (1992) (60)
Suppressing the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) (2017) (59)
The spontaneous interconnection of four repertoires of behavior in a pigeon (Columba livia). (1987) (59)
SIMULATION RESEARCH IN THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR (1986) (57)
The principle of parsimony and some applications in psychology. (1984) (57)
The Case for Praxics (1984) (57)
Animal cognition as the praxist views it (1985) (55)
THE SPONTANEOUS USE OF MEMORANDA BY PIGEONS (1981) (54)
Generativity theory and creativity. (1990) (53)
The Spontaneous Interconnection of Three Repertoires (1985) (52)
Cognition, Creativity, and Behavior: Selected Essays (1996) (52)
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It (2015) (50)
Support for a Fluid-Continuum Model of Sexual Orientation: A Large-Scale Internet Study (2012) (48)
Analysis of Distributed Data Base Processing Strategies (1980) (48)
The Truth about Online Dating (2007) (47)
How is Creativity Best Managed? Some Empirical and Theoretical Guidelines (2013) (46)
Design decisions for the intelligent database machine (1980) (43)
A companion to Gower (2004) (37)
The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen (2007) (36)
Estimates of Non-Heterosexual Prevalence: The Roles of Anonymity and Privacy in Survey Methodology (2018) (36)
The continuing bond of the bereaved towards the deceased and adjustment to loss (2006) (35)
SKINNER AS SELF‐MANAGER (1997) (31)
Representation: A concept that fills no gaps (1982) (30)
Reinforcement, explanation, and B. F. Skinner (1978) (30)
Further Comments on Praxics: Why the Devotion to Behaviorism? (1985) (30)
The Myth of the Teen Brain (2007) (30)
Generativity Theory (2009) (30)
Which Competencies Are Most Important for Creative Expression? (2012) (25)
Spontaneous and deferred imitation in the pigeon (1984) (22)
Defining Creativity (1980) (21)
Amount consumed varies as a function of feeder design. (1985) (20)
A self-control procedure for the maintenance of nondisruptive behavior in an elementary school child (1978) (17)
Compulsive sexual behavior and sexual offending: Differences in cognitive schemas, sensation seeking, and impulsivity (2019) (15)
How love emerges in arranged marriages: Two cross-cultural studies. (2013) (15)
Prisoners of Reflection: The Fifteenth-Century Poetry of Exile and Imprisonment (2003) (15)
Lydgate's Mummings and the Aristocratic Resistance to Drama (2002) (14)
ON THE REDISCOVERY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF RESURGENCE (2015) (14)
The positive side effects of reinforcement: a commentary on Balsam and Bondy (1983). (1985) (14)
On the orderliness of behavioral variability: Insights from generativity theory (2014) (12)
Which Relationship Skills Count Most? (2013) (12)
Generativity Theory and Education (1993) (11)
Changes in Motivation during an MBA Program: Gender Makes a Difference from First-Year to Graduation (2013) (10)
Let Your Creativity Soar (2008) (10)
The times of Harvey Milk (1984) (10)
Skinner for the classroom : selected papers (1982) (10)
An effect of immediate reinforcement and delayed punishment, with possible implications for self-control. (1984) (10)
What Makes a Good Parent (2010) (9)
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (2010) (9)
Early Maladaptive Schemas Are Highly Indicative of Compulsive Sexual Behavior (2020) (9)
London, Southwark, Westminster: Gower's Urban Contexts (2004) (9)
Giving Psychology Away: A Personal Journey (2006) (9)
How to Measure Sexual Orientation Range and Why It's Worth Measuring (2014) (9)
Democracy at Risk : Manipulating Search Rankings Can Shift Voters ’ Preferences Substantially Without Their Awareness (2013) (8)
Comparative Psychology as the Praxist Views It (1987) (8)
Distance Therapy Comes of Age (2011) (8)
Do Gays Have a Choice (2006) (8)
The big book of motivation games : quick, fun activities for energizing people at work and at home (2001) (7)
Together Again (2015) (7)
Waiden Two and Social Change: The Application of Behavior Analysis to Cultural Design (1989) (7)
My Date with a Robot (2006) (7)
"Fer in the north; I kan nat telle where": Dialect, Regionalism, and Philologism (2009) (7)
Of Course Animals Are Creative (2015) (7)
An Index to B. F. Skinner’s The Shaping of a Behaviorist (1984) (7)
"With Many a Floryn He the Hewes Boghte": Ekphrasis and Symbolic Violence in the Knight's Tale (2006) (7)
Literal Opposition: Deconstruction, History, and Lancaster (2002) (6)
Erratum: ‘Insight’ in the pigeon: antecedents and determinants of an intelligent performance (1984) (6)
Why High School Must Go: An Interview with Leon Botstein (2007) (5)
A threshold theory of the humor response (2007) (5)
A Convenient Model for the Evolution of Early Psychology as a Scientific Discipline (1981) (5)
Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting WorkPlace Creativity (1995) (5)
“Representation” in the Chimpanzee (1982) (4)
The Big Book of Stress Relief Games (2000) (4)
Behaviorism as the praxist views it (1986) (4)
Query processing techniques for distributed, relational data base systems (1982) (4)
Dismal Science: Chaucer and Gower on Alchemy and Economy (2014) (4)
Eating their words: food and text in the coronation banquet of Henry VI (2006) (4)
An Index to B. F. Skinner’s A Matter of Consequences (1985) (3)
The Debate About Praxics: Some Comments Meant Especially for Students (1987) (3)
The Lack of Interest in the Shipman’s Tale: Chaucer and the Social Theory of the Gift (2015) (3)
Which Relationship Skills Count Most? A Large-Scale Replication (2016) (3)
How Science Can Help You Fall in Love (2010) (3)
On the Columban simulations: A reply to Gallup. (1985) (3)
Preliminary Validation of an Online DSM-Based Mental Health Referral Inventory (2011) (3)
The Nurture Effect (2015) (2)
In Practice: Applications of Contextual Behavioral ScienceCrying babies (2012) (2)
Pigeons, canaries and problem-solving (1984) (2)
A DSM-5-Based Online Mental Health Referral Inventory: A Large-Scale Validation Study (2017) (2)
Impersonal and Predatory Relations With Child Victims of Sexual Assault: Pedophilic Interest and Early Childhood Abuse (2020) (2)
Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (2018) (2)
An Index to B. F. Skinner’s Particulars of My Life (1983) (2)
The nature of publications in academic vitae. (1985) (2)
Further comments on the Columban simulations. (1985) (1)
Reply: To PMID 23231740. (2013) (1)
1. Introduction: The Sacred, the Profane, and Late Medieval Literature (2010) (1)
How much do you know about recreation for older adults (1994) (1)
The frequency profile: An informative method for graphing the behavior of individuals post hoc or in real time. (2017) (1)
Chaucer's Scogan and Scogan's Chaucer (1999) (1)
Woe is Us (2013) (1)
Chaucer's Gifts: Exchange and Value in the Canterbury Tales (2018) (1)
An Introductory Forensic Science Course in a Law Enforcement Program (1975) (1)
Fight the Frazzled Mind (2011) (1)
Yet Another Stage of Life (2012) (1)
Our Most Unforgettable Character (1980) (1)
Can Machines Think? Computers Try to Fool Humans at the First Annual Loebner Prize Competition Held at The Computer Museum, Boston (1992) (1)
The Motivation Competencies That Count Most: An Online International Study (2022) (1)
On the modification of reprints. (1985) (1)
The times of Harvey Milk : film (1984) (1)
Smooth Thinking about Sexuality (2007) (1)
Sexual Orientation Lies on a Continuum, 1 Sexual Orientation Lies Smoothly on a Continuum: Verification and Extension of Kinsey’s Hypothesis in a Large-Scale Internet Study (2010) (1)
Book Review: Are Humans Doomed? (2016) (0)
Coalitions and competition. (1982) (0)
EstimatesofNon-HeterosexualPrevalence : TheRoles ofAnonymity and Privacy in SurveyMethodology (2017) (0)
Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Second EditionApproaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Second Edition (2014) (0)
Are You Mentally Healthy (2010) (0)
New directions in office automation research: SIGOA panel (1988) (0)
claire sponsler. The Queen’s Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater. (2015) (0)
Animal Creativity and Innovation (2015) (0)
Infantilization across the life span: A large-scale internet study suggests that emotional abuse is especially damaging (2022) (0)
The regulation of collective action. (1976) (0)
REVIEWS-Classical mathematical logic (2007) (0)
Book Review: Surprising Ways to Be Wise (2016) (0)
Interference with Contractual Relations: A Property Limitation (1966) (0)
World's Fair Photography Rights Protected: Copyright. Architects. Unfair Competition (1965) (0)
Keynote Address (1995) (0)
Labor Pains: Why We Work (2015) (0)
Adam Usk's Secret by Steven Justice (review) (2018) (0)
On Mindfulness and Our Relation to Animals (1985) (0)
Abstracts of papers presented at the 12th Conference of the Weed Science Society of Israel (1992) (0)
Reviews and Recommendations (2017) (0)
Word is out : film (1978) (0)
Introduction: “Greet prees at Market”—Money Matters in Medieval English Literature (2018) (0)
DNR ORDERS AND MEDICAL FUTILITY. AUTHORS' REPLY (1995) (0)
How Is Stress Most Effectively Managed? A Large-Scale Follow-Up Study (2014) (0)
Abstracts of papers presented at the 16th Congress of the Israeli Phytopathological Society (1995) (0)
7. Sacred Commerce: Chaucer, Friars, and the Spirit of Money (2010) (0)
Chapter 9 Subtle New Forms of Internet In fl uence Are Putting Democracy at Risk Worldwide (2016) (0)
Summoning Hunger: Polanyi, Piers Plowman, and the Labor Market (2018) (0)
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century . (The New Middle Ages). Lisa H. Cooper , Andrea Denny-Brown (2009) (0)
A Spiritual Approach to the Question of Leather (1987) (0)
Head vs. Heart (2015) (0)
How SARS-CoV-2 and Comparable Pathogens Can Be Defeated in a Single Day: Description and Mathematical Model of the Carrier Separation Plan (CSP) (2020) (0)
You are Darwinian (2014) (0)
Toward the search for the perfect blade runner: a large-scale, international assessment of a test that screens for “humanness sensitivity” (2022) (0)
A Benefactor of His Race: Thoreau's "Higher Laws" and the Heroics of Vegetarianism (1985) (0)
Donation Determination: Which Charitable Organization and How Much?" (2011) (0)
A STATE ABOVE ALL OTHER: (2020) (0)
Weight Loss for Nondummies (2015) (0)
Why we still need the relational model (1992) (0)
In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and Its Afterlife: Essays in Memory of J. J. Anderson ed. by David Matthews (review) (2015) (0)
Thrift Shopping: A Study of Why Consumers go Thrift Shopping. (2010) (0)
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 11th Conference of the Weed Science Society of Israel (1990) (0)
Risk-Taking Teens Have More Mature Brains (2009) (0)
Comparative Cognition 2 – Spatial and Social Knowledge and Reasoning More Additional References (not Normally for Further Reading) If Presented with Sample Mm, Choose 'mm' Not 'no' (0)
An index to B. F. Skinner's cumulative record (3rd ed.). (2000) (0)
A Theory about Theories (2014) (0)
Epstein Creativity Competencies Inventory for Individuals (2019) (0)
Progress in Behavioral Studies (2019) (0)
InResponse Further CommentsonPraxics: WhytheDevotion toBehaviorism? (1985) (0)
On books (2000) (0)
Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance. Walter Wadiak. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. Pp. vii+195. (2018) (0)
Book Review: Upside (2015) (0)
Subtle New Forms of Internet Influence Are Putting Democracy at Risk Worldwide (2016) (0)
Brain as Transducer: What if the brain is not a self-contained information processor? What if it is simply a transducer? (2021) (0)
PNAS Plus Significance Statements (2015) (0)
Bibliography of the Scholarship of John V. Fleming (2010) (0)
Charitable Organization Donations: Which ones and How Much? (2010) (0)
Book Review: Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance by Walter Wadiak (2018) (0)
SCIENCE , ' Self-Awareness " in the Pigeon (2009) (0)
Motivational and Cognitive Factors in Pathways to Offending Amongst Women who Have Sexually Offended (2021) (0)
Book Review: Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century, edited by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown (2009) (0)
Frequency Profiles Computing and Plotting (2016) (0)
Our Flawed Sixth Sense (2014) (0)

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