178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection of original essays by members of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior offers innovative perspectives on self-control over the use of habituating substances and related types of behavior. The authors review the powerful social-psychological influences of normative rules and interpersonal circumstances in developing individual... Read more
About the Series -- Introduction -- Self-Control: The Role of Environmental and Self-Generated Cues -- Maintenance of Behavior by “Schedules”: An Unfamiliar Contributor to the Maintenance of the Abuse of Substances and the Like -- Excessive Behavior and Drug-Taking: Environmental Generation and Self-Control -- A Control System Approach to Alcohol Intake -- The Intimate Contest for Self-Command
Biography
Peter K. Levison, study director of the Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior of the National Research Council, has primary research interests in the experimental analysis of behavior, especially the effects of drugs, psycho-therapy, and modifications in the environment. Currently he is a visiting research psychologist at the Walter Reed Institutes for Research. He is editor of several NRC reports on controlled-substance use and reduced tar and nicotine cigarettes.
