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Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?

Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?
  • Edited by Caterina Marchionni, and Jack Vromen.

Published January 2012

Is neuroeconomics a flimsy fad likely to pass without leaving a discernible trace in economics? Or is it a promising new field with the potential to enrich and improve economic theory? Neuroeconomics brings together a unique mix of perspectives ranging from philosophy of science to neuroeconomics…
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Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses

Global Challenges

Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses
  • Edited by Duncan Chappell.

Published November 2011

According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders. Given prevalence data like this it is not surprising that wherever they reside on the planet many persons suffering from a mental…
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Clinical Applications of Learning Theory

Clinical Applications of Learning Theory
  • Edited by Mark Haselgrove, and Lee Hogarth.

Published November 2011

This book examines a variety of psychological disorders from the perspective of the psychology of learning. Grounded in the study of classical and instrumental conditioning, learning theory provides an explanatory framework for the way in which humans acquire information, and when applied, how…
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Behavior Analysis and Learning

Fourth Edition

Behavior Analysis and Learning
  • By W. David Pierce, and Carl D. Cheney.

Published May 2008

Behavior Analysis and Learning, Fourth Edition is an essential textbook covering the basic principles in the field of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B. F. Skinner. The textbook provides an advanced introduction to operant conditioning from a very consistent Skinnerian…
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Behavior Analysis Around the World

A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

Behavior Analysis Around the World
  • Edited by Rubén Ardila.

Published December 2006

Behaviour analysis has tradionally been one of the main areas and main approaches to psychology. It is based on laboratory research and in conceptualizations from distinguished figures of the discipline, such as Skinner, Pavlov, Mach, and even Watson and Thorndike. It has generated a science (the…
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How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst

Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life

How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst
  • By Jon Bailey, and Mary Burch.

Published May 2006

How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst is a revolutionary resource for understanding complex human behavior and making potentially significant quality of life improvements. Behavior analysts offer a worldview of the human condition different than almost any other professional perspective. To a…
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Personality: Critical Concepts

  • Edited by Cary L Cooper, Cary L. Cooper and Lawrence A. Pervin.
  • Introduction by Cary L Cooper, Cary L. Cooper and Lawrence A. Pervin.

Published September 1998

Almost everything we do as humans is influenced by our personalities. This set of critical readings in personality theory brings together all the major contributions in the field. All the classical papers on the critical theories of personality are included, as well as more contemporary work on…
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B.F. Skinner

A Reappraisal

  • By Marc N. Richelle.

Published July 1995

B.F. Skinner died in August 1990. He had been praised as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, but was also attacked by a variety of opponents within and outside the field of psychology. This introduction to his work is first of all a guide to a correct reading of his…
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Behaviourism

The Early Years

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Published September 1994

Behaviourism:The Early Years collects critical articles concerned with the articulation of the behaviourist programme and reprints the full texts of five of the most important monographs contributing to the early growth of behaviourism.…
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An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology

  • By Patrice Guex.
  • Translated by Heather Goodare.
  • Foreword by Karol Sikora.

Published December 1993

Cancer is extremely common and in many situations a truly frightening disease, but for too long the psychological aspects and effects have been ignored. An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology deals in a clear and simple manner with the reactions of cancer patients to their illness, and the ways in…
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