Impulsivity (eBook)

How Time and Risk Influence Decision Making

Jeffrey R. Stevens (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
X, 280 Seiten
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978-3-319-51721-6 (ISBN)

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As the 64th volume in the prestigious Nebraska Series on Motivation, this book focuses on impulsivity, a multi-faceted concept that encompasses such phenomena as the inability to wait, a tendency to act without forethought, insensitivity to consequences, and/or an inability to inhibit inappropriate behaviors.  Due to this multi-faceted nature, it plays a critical role in a number of key behavioral problems, including pathological gambling, overeating, addiction, adolescent risk-taking, spread of sexually transmitted diseases, criminal behavior, financial decision making, and environmental attitudes. This broad and interdisciplinary scope has historically resulted in separate subfields studying impulsivity in relative isolation from one another. Therefore, a central achievement of this volume is to convey an integrative exploration of impulsivity.

To provide a comprehensive and cohesive understanding of impulsivity, this volume brings together eminent scholars and rising researchers from different domains (developmental psychology, neuroscience, animal cognition, anthropology, addiction science), who use different techniques (behavioral assays, imaging, endocrinology, genetics). Moreover, it includes perspectives and analyses from the two primary types of impulsivity: impulsive choice (or decision making) and impulsive action (or disinhibition). The authors present expert analyses of topics such as delayed gratification, discounting models, and adaptive foraging decisions. Leveraging breadth of coverage and renowned scholarship, Impulsivity: How Time and Risk Influence Decision Making advances our understanding of this complex topic and sheds light on novel research directions and potential future collaborations.



Dr. Stevens is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota in 2002. He then received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. From 2006-2011, he was a research scientist in the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. In addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, he is also a core faculty member of the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior. Dr. Stevens' research integrates cognitive and evolutionary perspectives to study decision making in humans and other animals. He uses theoretical, experimental, and comparative methods to model and empirically investigate the cognitive processes organisms use when making decisions. He is currently editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Comparative Psychology.

Dr. Stevens is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota in 2002. He then received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. From 2006-2011, he was a research scientist in the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. In addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, he is also a core faculty member of the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior. Dr. Stevens' research integrates cognitive and evolutionary perspectives to study decision making in humans and other animals. He uses theoretical, experimental, and comparative methods to model and empirically investigate the cognitive processes organisms use when making decisions. He is currently editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Comparative Psychology.

Chapter 1: The Many Faces of ImpulsivityJeffrey R. StevensChapter 2: Delay of Gratification: Explorations of How and Why Children Wait and its Linkages to Outcomes over the LifecoursePhilip K. PeakeChapter 3: From Risk and Time Preferences to Cultural Models of Causality: On the Challenges and Possibilities of Field Experiments, with Examples from Rural southwestern MadagascarBram TuckerChapter 4: A Fuzzy Trace Theory of Risk and Time Preferences in Decision Making: Integrating Cognition and MotivationShahin Rahimi-Golkhandan, David M. N. Garavito, Bertrand B. Reyna-Brainerd, Valerie F. ReynaChapter 5: Devaluation of Outcomes Due to their Cost: Extending Discounting Models beyond Delay Suzanne H. MitchellChapter 6: Engaging and Exploring: Cortical Circuits for Adaptive Foraging DecisionsDavid L. Barack and Michael L. PlattChapter 7: Dissecting Impulsivity: Brain Mechanisms and Neuropsychiatric ImplicationsTrevor W. Robbins and JW DalleyChapter 8: Toward Narrative Theory: Interventions for Reinforcer Pathology in Health BehaviorsWarren K. Bickel, Jeffrey S. Stein, Lara N. Moody, Sarah E. Snider, Alexandra M. Mellis, & Amanda J. Quisenberry

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.3.2017
Reihe/Serie Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
Zusatzinfo X, 280 p. 37 illus., 28 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Schlagworte adaptive foraging • addiction and behavioral neuroscience • behavioral endocrinology • brain mechanisms for risk taking • brain's reward systems • delayed gratification • discounting models • drug abuse and impulsivity • Emotion Regulation • evolution of decision making • impulsive disinhibition • Intertemporal Decision Making • neural underpinnings of decision making • risk taking in adolescence
ISBN-10 3-319-51721-X / 331951721X
ISBN-13 978-3-319-51721-6 / 9783319517216
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