Arthur W. Staats

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Arthur W. Staats is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arthur W. Staats has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 23 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Arthur W. Staats's work include Behavioral and Psychological Studies (41 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (16 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (14 papers). Arthur W. Staats is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral and Psychological Studies (41 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (16 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (14 papers). Arthur W. Staats collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Japan. Arthur W. Staats's co-authors include Carolyn K. Staats, William H. Butterfield, Clessen J. Martin, Karl A. Minke, Hamid Hekmat, Peter S. Staats, Montrose M. Wolf, Georg H. Eifert, David Ryback and G. Leonard Burns and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Arthur W. Staats

104 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Attitudes established by classical conditioning. 1958 2026 1980 2003 1958 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Attitudes established by classical conditioning.
    1958 324 citations Arthur W. Staats, Carolyn K. Staats profile →

Peers

Arthur W. Staats
Leonard Krasner United States
David S. Palermo United States
Kenneth S. Bowers Canada
Thomas J. Kehle United States
Thomas Oakland United States
Jasmine Hunt United States
Edward K. Morris United States
Stanley B. Messer United States
Wesley C. Becker United States
A. B. Silverstein United States
Leonard Krasner United States
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All Works

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Staats, Arthur W., et al.. (2006). El papel de las emociones positivas y negativas en la predicción de depresión: el principio de adición de las emociones en el Conductismo Psicológico. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W.. (2006). Positive and negative reinforcers: How about the second and third functions?. The Behavior Analyst. 29(2). 271–272. 4 indexed citations
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Staats, Peter S., Hamid Hekmat, & Arthur W. Staats. (2004). The Psychological Behaviorism Theory of Pain and the Placebo: Its Principles and Results of Research Application. Advances in psychosomatic medicine. 28–40. 12 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W., et al.. (2003). Personalidad, emociones y dolor. Clínica y Salud. 14(1). 7–25.
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Staats, Peter S., Arthur W. Staats, & Hamid Hekmat. (2001). The Additive Impact of Anxiety and a Placebo on Pain. Pain Medicine. 2(4). 267–279. 54 indexed citations
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Staats, Peter S., Hamid Hekmat, & Arthur W. Staats. (1998). Suggestion/Placebo Effects on Pain. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 15(4). 235–243. 39 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W.. (1994). Psychological Behaviorism and Behaviorizing Psychology. The Behavior Analyst. 17(1). 93–114. 16 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W.. (1990). Paradigmatic behaviorism and intelligence: task analysis? technical plan? or theory?. Psicothema. 2(1). 7–24. 3 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W.. (1989). Paradigmatic behaviorism's theory of intelligence: a third-generation approach to cognition. Psicothema. 1(2). 7–24. 3 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W. & G. Leonard Burns. (1981). Intelligence and child development: What intelligence is and how it is learned and functions.. 16 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W.. (1979). El conductismo social: un fundamento de la modificación del comportamiento. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1). 9–46. 3 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W., et al.. (1974). Motivation and the three-function learning: Food deprivation and approach-avoidance to food words.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 103(6). 1191–1199. 21 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W., et al.. (1970). Learning and Cognitive Development: Representative Samples, Cumulative-Hierarchical Learning, and Experimental-Longitudinal Methods. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 35(8). i–i. 24 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W.. (1968). Learning, language, and cognition : theory, research, and method for the study of human behavior and its development. Holt, Rinehart and Winston eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W.. (1964). Human learning : studies extending conditioning principles to complex behavior. Holt, Rinehart and Winston eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W., et al.. (1964). A Reinforcer System and Experimental Procedure for the Laboratory Study of Reading Acquisition. Child Development. 35(1). 209–209. 7 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W. & Carolyn K. Staats. (1962). A Comparison of the Development of Speech and Reading Behavior with Implications for Research. Child Development. 33(4). 831–831. 2 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W. & Carolyn K. Staats. (1961). OPERANT CONDITIONING OF A CLASS OF NEGATIVE EVALUATIVE MEANING WORDS. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Staats, Arthur W., Carolyn K. Staats, & Donald A. Biggs. (1958). Meaning of Verbal Stimuli Changed by Conditioning. The American Journal of Psychology. 71(2). 429–429. 24 indexed citations

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