E. John Capaldi

6.3k citations

154 papers · 4.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 29

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Behavioral Neuroscience top 1%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
Developmental and Educational Psychology top 0.5%
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Child and Animal Learning Development

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 55
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 43
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies 8
Developmental and Educational Psychology 40
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies 32
- Child and Animal Learning Development 9

Co-authors: Robert W. Proctor (14 shared papers)Yun Kyoung Shin (1 shared paper)Donna R. Verry (12 shared papers)Daniel J. Miller (11 shared papers)David Lynch (2 shared papers)James E. Spivey (5 shared papers)Terry L. Davidson (2 shared papers)Harold W. Stevenson (1 shared paper)
Journals: Learning and Motivation (16 papers)Behavioral and Brain Sciences (4 papers)Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (3 papers)Psychological Bulletin (2 papers)The Psychology of learning and motivation (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States

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E. John Capaldi

146 papers receiving 3.5k citations

E. John Capaldi's Hit Papers

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A Sequential Hypothesis of Instrumental Learning 1967 · 460 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

1967 The Psychology of learning and motivation

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1	A Sequential Hypothesis of Instrumental Learning The Psychology of learning and motivation ·E. John Capaldi Hit paper breakdown →	1967	460
2	A review of contemporary ideomotor theory. Psychological Bulletin ·Yun Kyoung Shin, Robert W. Proctor, E. John Capaldi	2010	442
3	Partial reinforcement: A hypothesis of sequential effects. Psychological Review ·E. John Capaldi	1966	272
4	THE ORGANIZATION OF BEHAVIOR Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis ·E. John Capaldi	1992	185
5	Counting in rats: Its functional significance and the independent cognitive processes that constitute it. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes ·E. John Capaldi, Daniel J. Miller	1988	154
6	MEMORY AND LEARNING: A SEQUENTIAL VIEWPOINT Elsevier eBooks ·E. John Capaldi	1971	123
7	The sequential view: From rapidly fading stimulus traces to the organization of memory and the abstract concept of number Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ·E. John Capaldi	1994	101
8	Effect of N-length, number of different N-lengths, and number of reinforcements on resistance to extinction. Journal of Experimental Psychology ·E. John Capaldi	1964	92
9	Serial order anticipation learning in rats: Memory for multiple hedonic events and their order Animal Learning & Behavior ·E. John Capaldi, Donna R. Verry	1981	90
10	Element discriminability as a determinant of serial-pattern learning Animal Learning & Behavior ·E. John Capaldi, Patricia E. Molina	1979	83
11	Repeated shifts in reward magnitude: Evidence in favor of an associational and absolute (noncontextual) interpretation. Journal of Experimental Psychology ·E. John Capaldi, David Lynch	1967	79
12	Memory, serial anticipation pattern learning, and transfer in rats Animal Learning & Behavior ·E. John Capaldi, Donna R. Verry, Terry L. Davidson	1980	69
13	Response reversal following different amounts of training. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology ·E. John Capaldi, Harold W. Stevenson	1957	65
14	The behavior of rats in relation to complex patterns of partial reinforcement. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology ·E. John Capaldi +1 other	1961	60
15	Empirical evaluation and justification of methodologies in psychological science. Psychological Bulletin ·Robert W. Proctor, E. John Capaldi	2001	57
16	Improving the Science Education of Psychology Students: Better Teaching of Methodology Teaching of Psychology ·Robert W. Proctor, E. John Capaldi	2001	51
17	Partial reward either following or preceding consistent reward: A case of reinforcement level. Journal of Experimental Psychology ·E. John Capaldi	1974	51
18	The effects of different amounts of training on the resistance to extinction of different patterns of partially reinforced responses. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology ·E. John Capaldi	1958	50
19	Effect of intertrial reinforcement on the aftereffect of nonreinforcement and resistance to extinction. Journal of Experimental Psychology ·E. John Capaldi, Dick Hart, Larry R. Stanley	1963	48
20	Serial learning, interitem associations, phrasing cues, interference, overshadowing, chunking, memory, and extinction Animal Learning & Behavior ·E. John Capaldi, Donna R. Verry, Timothy M. Nawrocki, Daniel J. Miller	1984	47

About E. John Capaldi

E. John Capaldi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology, having authored 154 papers that have together received 4.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (43 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (32 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (18 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (12 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (9 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Behavioral Neuroscience (415 citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (1.5k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (1.9k citations), General Psychology (67 citations) and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (785 citations). E. John Capaldi has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Robert W. Proctor, Yun Kyoung Shin, Donna R. Verry, Daniel J. Miller, David Lynch, James E. Spivey, Terry L. Davidson, Harold W. Stevenson, Michael D. Morris and Elizabeth Deutsch Capaldi. Their work appears in journals such as Learning and Motivation, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Psychological Bulletin and The Psychology of learning and motivation.

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