Primary Sources

Welcome to the Library for Psychology in the New Millennium! Here you'll find some of the landmark writings in Psychology—Skinner on learning and reinforcement, Freud on "Civilization and Its Discontents," Piaget on responsibility, Milgram on obedience, even excerpts from Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. Feel free to browse and check out anything that interests you. Happy reading!


1.	Behavioral study of obedience by S. Milgram
2.	Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of the septal area and other regions of the rat brain by J. Olds & P. Milner
3.	Brain signal shown to move a robot's arm by Sandra Blakeslee
4.	Writings on Evolution by Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace
5.	The "visual cliff" by E.J. Gibson & R.D. Walk
6.	Some observations regarding the experiences and behavior of the BaMbuti Pygmies by C.M. Turnbull
7.	Experts explore deep sleep and the making of memories by Sandra Blakeslee
8.	Conditioned emotional reactions by J.B. Watson & R. Rayner
9.	Superstition in the pigeon by B.F. Skinner
10.	Cognitive maps in rats and men by E.C. Tolman
11.	Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models by A. Bandura, D. Ross & S.A. Ross
12.	Effects of decreased variation in the sensory environment by W.H. Bexton, W. Heron & T.H. Scott
13.	Cognitive consequences of forced compliance by L. Festinger & J.M. Carlsmith
14.	Civilization and its Discontents-an excerpt by Sigmund Freud
15.	A therapist's view of the good life by C.R. Rogers
16.	The nature of love by H.F. Harlow
17.	Objective responsibility: clumsiness and stealing by Jean Piaget
18.	Opinions and social pressure by S.E. Asch
19.	Bystander intervention in emergencies: diffusion of responsibility by J.M. Darley & B. Latane