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  1. Interrelationship of CB1R and OBR pathways in regulation of metabolic, neuroendocrine, and behavioral responses to food restriction and voluntary wheel running

    Article • Journal of Applied Physiology, June 2014, American Physiological Society

    Dr W David Pierce

  2. Effect of sucrose availability and pre-running on the intrinsic value of wheel running as an operant and a reinforcing consequence

    Article • Behavioural Processes, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  3. Down-regulation of hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) expression after weaning is associated with hyperphagia-induced obesity in JCR rats overexpressing neuropeptide Y

    Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, October 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr W David Pierce

  4. Behavior Analysis and Learning

    Article • August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr W David Pierce

  5. Differential Expression of Hypothalamic Metabolic Genes in Response to Short-Term Calorie Restriction in Young Obese- and Lean-prone JCR Rats

    Article • Canadian Journal of Diabetes, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  6. Feeding History and Obese‐Prone Genotype Increase Survival of Rats Exposed to a Challenge of Food Restriction and Wheel Running

    Article • Obesity, September 2012, Wiley

    Dr W David Pierce

  7. Activity-Based Anorexia in the Rat

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr W David Pierce

  8. Bivalent effects of wheel running on taste conditioning

    Article • Behavioural Processes, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  9. Feeding history and obese-prone genotype increase survival of rats exposed to a challenge of food restriction and wheel running

    Article • Canadian Journal of Diabetes, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  10. Erratum: Evolution and obesity: resistance of obese-prone rats to a challenge of food restriction and wheel running

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr W David Pierce

  11. Evolution and obesity: resistance of obese-prone rats to a challenge of food restriction and wheel running

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr W David Pierce

  12. Blocking of conditioned taste avoidance induced by wheel running

    Article • Behavioural Processes, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  13. Body weight manipulation, reinforcement value and choice between sucrose and wheel running: A behavioral economic analysis

    Article • Behavioural Processes, February 2009, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  14. Behavior Analysis and Learning

    Article • May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr W David Pierce

  15. Overeating by Young Obesity‐prone and Lean Rats Caused by Tastes Associated With Low Energy Foods

    Article • Obesity, August 2007, Wiley

    Dr W David Pierce

  16. The role of pre-exposure to novel food tastes in activity-based conditioned taste avoidance

    Article • Learning and Motivation, February 2007, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  17. Reinforcement Value and Substitutability of Sucrose and Wheel Running: Implications for Activity Anorexia

    Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, September 2006, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

    Dr W David Pierce

  18. Achievement-Based Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation: A Test of Cognitive Mediators.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, November 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr W David Pierce

  19. Taste avoidance induced by wheel running: effects of backward pairings and robustness of conditioned taste aversion

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, September 2004, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  20. Effect of short-term prefeeding and body weight on wheel running and responding reinforced by the opportunity to run in a wheel

    Article • Behavioural Processes, July 2004, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  21. Conditioned taste aversion induced by wheel running: further evidence on wheel running duration

    Article • Behavioural Processes, May 2004, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  22. Wheel running produces conditioned food aversion

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, October 2003, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  23. Pre-exposure to wheel running disrupts taste aversion conditioning

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, May 2002, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  24. Conditioned taste aversion induced by wheel running is not due to novelty of the wheel

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, September 2001, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  25. Effects of reward on intrinsic motivation—Negative, neutral, and positive: Comment on Deci, Koestner, and Ryan (1999).

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, January 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr W David Pierce

  26. Social Modeling, Monetary Incentives, and Pain Endurance: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Pam Perception

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, March 1997, SAGE Publications

    Dr W David Pierce

  27. Activity Anorexia

    Article • August 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr W David Pierce

  28. The Debate About Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation: Protests and Accusations Do Not Alter the Results

    Article • Review of Educational Research, January 1996, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr W David Pierce

  29. Diurnal variation of intensive running in food-deprived rats

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, October 1995, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr W David Pierce

  30. The applied importance of research on the matching law

    Article • Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, January 1995, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

    Dr W David Pierce

  31. Reinforcement, Reward, and Intrinsic Motivation: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • Review of Educational Research, January 1994, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr W David Pierce

  32. Effects of Training on Serum Testosterone and Cortisol Levels in Wrestlers

    Article • Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, October 1992, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr W David Pierce

  33. Endurance Training Decreases Serum Testosterone Levels in Men without Change in Luteinizing Hormone Pulsatile Release*

    Article • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, February 1991, Endocrine Society

    Dr W David Pierce

  34. Suppression of food deprivation-induced high-rate wheel running in rats

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, August 1990, Elsevier

    Dr W David Pierce

  35. Suboptimal choice in a percentage-reinforcement procedure: effects of signal condition and terminal-link length.

    Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, March 1990, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

    Dr W David Pierce

  36. Determinants of choice for pigeons and humans on concurrent-chains schedules of reinforcement.

    Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, September 1989, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

    Dr W David Pierce

  37. The effect of logarithmic transformation on estimating the parameters of the generalized matching law

    Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, July 1989, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

    Dr W David Pierce

  38. Excessive Activity and Anorexia in Rats

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr W David Pierce

  39. Activity-based anorexia: A biobehavioral perspective

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, July 1988, Wiley

    Dr W David Pierce

  40. Deprivation and satiation: The interrelations between food and wheel running

    Article • Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, September 1986, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

    Dr W David Pierce

  41. A theory of activity-based anorexia

    Article • International Journal of Eating Disorders, January 1983, Wiley

    Dr W David Pierce

  42. Demand Characteristics in an Operant Investigation

    Article • Psychological Reports, February 1982, SAGE Publications

    Dr W David Pierce

  43. Social Learning Theory

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Sociology, January 1977, JSTOR

    Dr W David Pierce

  44. Activity Anorexia: An Animal Model and Theory of Human Self-Starvation

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr W David Pierce