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Steven F. Maier

University of Colorado Boulder
Verified email at colorado.edu
Cited by 87097

Learned helplessness: theory and evidence.

SF Maier, ME Seligman - Journal of experimental psychology …, 1976 - psycnet.apa.org
Reviews the literature which examined the effects of exposing organisms to aversive events
which they cannot control. Motivational, cognitive, and emotional effects of uncontrollability …

Cytokines for psychologists: implications of bidirectional immune-to-brain communication for understanding behavior, mood, and cognition

SF Maier, LR Watkins - 2002 - direct.mit.edu
In this chapter we argue that a variety of behavioral, affective, and cognitive phenomena are
driven by events in the immune system. These events occur in response to infection, injury, …

Glial activation: a driving force for pathological pain

LR Watkins, ED Milligan, SF Maier - Trends in neurosciences, 2001 - cell.com
Pain is classically viewed as being mediated solely by neurons, as are other sensory
phenomena. The discovery that spinal cord glia (microglia and astrocytes) amplify pain requires a …

Failure to escape traumatic shock.

ME Seligman, SF Maier - Journal of experimental psychology, 1967 - psycnet.apa.org
DOGS WHICH HAD 1ST LEARNED TO PANEL PRESS IN A HARNESS IN ORDER TO
ESCAPE SHOCK SUBSEQUENTLY SHOWED NORMAL ACQUISITION OF ESCAPE/…

[BOOK][B] Learned helplessness: A theory for the age of personal control

C Peterson, SF Maier, MEP Seligman - 1993 - books.google.com
Maier and Martin EP Seligman were there at the very start, graduate students at the Uni…
Christopher Peterson joined the journey later, studying first with Maier at the University of …

Medial prefrontal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus

…, E Paul, ST Bland, LR Watkins, SF Maier - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
… Amat, J., Matus-Amat, P., Watkins, LR & Maier, SF Escapable and inescapable stress …
Maier, SF Role of fear in mediating shuttle escape learning deficit produced by … SF Maier

Immune activation: the role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in inflammation, illness responses and pathological pain states

LR Watkins, SF Maier, LE Goehler - Pain, 1995 - journals.lww.com
… and Maier, SF, Evidence for involvement of spinal cord glia in diverse models of hyperalgeia…
and Maier, SF, Blockade of interleukin-1 induced hyperthermia by subdiaphragmatic …

Stressor controllability and learned helplessness: the roles of the dorsal raphe nucleus, serotonin, and corticotropin-releasing factor

SF Maier, LR Watkins - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
The term ‘learned helplessness’ refers to a constellation of behavioral changes that follow
exposure to stressors that are not controllable by means of behavioral responses, but that fail …

Beyond neurons: evidence that immune and glial cells contribute to pathological pain states

LR Watkins, SF Maier - Physiological reviews, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
Chronic pain can occur after peripheral nerve injury, infection, or inflammation. Under such
neuropathic pain conditions, sensory processing in the affected body region becomes …

Learned helplessness at fifty: Insights from neuroscience.

SF Maier, MEP Seligman - Psychological review, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
… So Maier ran a special escapable shock group in the hammock: For this group shock went
… This was a crucial test of contiguity versus cognition and Maier found that this escapable …