John Bascom Wolfe

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John Bascom Wolfe (8 July 1904 – 5 January 1988) was an American social and behavioural psychologist best known for his study of the use of a token economy on chimpanzees.

Works

The Effect of Delayed Reward upon Learning in the White Rat (Baltimore, 1934)
Some Experimental Tests of 'Reasoning' in White Rats (with S.D.S. Spragg; n.p., 1934
Effectiveness of Token-rewards for Chimpanzees (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1936)
An Exploratory Study of Food-storing in Rats (Baltimore, 1939)
The Impact and Potential Change in Chimpanzee Condition-Based Reasoning (University of Florida Press, 1940)

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Name	Wolfe, John Bascom
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Short description	American psychologist
Date of birth	8 July 1904
Place of birth
Date of death	5 January 1988
Place of death

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