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RICHARD LESTER SOLOMAN
Pages 301-314

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... Of equal importance, especially to him, he trainee! a whole generation of research psychologists, literally populating an important subfield with most of its leaclers.
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... him a summa cum laucle degree in 1940. His eventual decision to focus on psychology was heavily influenced by the quality of the members of the Brown psychology department at that time, people such as Walter Hunter, Haroic!
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... wale ranging basic research interests within experimental psychology. But two themes run through this remarkably diverse research career: a repeater!
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... He saw, perhaps more clearly that anyone else, that avoicIance learning was the product of two learning processes: a classical conditioning process in which the warning signal became aversive by virtue of cleveloping a Pavlovian association with the shock en c! an instrumental learning process in which the animal's jumping response was rewarclec!
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... BuiTcling on icleas from perception, he clevelopec! a framework within which to examine strong emotional effects in terms of their initial consequences for the organism en c!
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... such honorific offices as president of the Experimental Division of the American Psychological Association, president of the Eastern Psychological Association, en c! chairman of the Governing Boarc!
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... by graduate students en c! faculty from other labs.
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... to pursue vigorously his outdoor interests in hiking and canoeing. He also continued his role as a mentor, actively encouraging the members of the White Mountain Miler's, a local running club in which his wife Maggie was active.
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... In 1996 the University of Pennsylvania renamed its psychology building as the Richard L Solomon Laboratory of Experimental Psychology.
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... Discriminative classical conditioning under curare can later control discriminative avoidance responses in the normal. Science 132: 1499-1500.
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... Discriminative classical conditioning in dogs paralyzed by curare can later control discriminative avoidance responses in the normal state. Psychol.
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... V Affective dynamics of eating.


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