All ebooks in the collection "Nebraska Symposium on Motivation" - Springer

Change and Maintaining Change

Rick A. Bevins , Debra A. Hope

This unique multidisciplinary volume examines the dynamics of behavioral change and its maintenance, from the individual to the wider domains of public policy. Coverage traces how change may be achieved, sustained, or derailed, as well as underlying neurobiological,...

The Neuropsychopathology of Schizophrenia

Ming Li , William D. Spaulding

One of the first major theoretical reviews of schizophrenia since the publication of the 5th edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-5, this volume is a landmark in the history of schizophrenia research. It assembles recent groundbreaking...

Motivating Cooperation and Compliance with Authority

Brian H. Bornstein , Alan J. Tomkins

This volume explores the various ways in which trust is thought about and studied in contemporary society. In doing so, it aims to advance both theoretical and methodological perspectives on trust. Trust is an important topic in this series because it raises issues of...

Genes and the Motivation to Use Substances

Scott F. Stoltenberg

Human beings have been using intoxicating substances for millennia. But while most people have used psychoactive substances without becoming dependent on them, a significant minority develop substance use disorders. The question remains: why does addiction occur in some...

The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search

Michael D. Dodd , John Flowers

The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search will bring together distinguished authors who are conducting cutting edge research on the many factors that influence search behavior. These factors will include low-level feature detection;...

True and False Recovered Memories

Robert F. Belli

Beginning in the 1990s, the contentious “memory wars” divided psychologists into two schools of thought: that adults’ recovered memories of childhood abuse were generally true, or that they were generally not, calling theories, therapies, professional ethics, and...

Health Disparities in Youth and Families

Gustavo Carlo , Miguel A. Carranza , Lisa J. Crockett

Amid its growing diversity and shifting demographics, the U.S. is still home to glaring health inequities by race, ethnicity, and class. Yet while it is customary to identify poverty as their root cause, other complex mechanisms are involved in their perpetuation. ...

Emotion and the Law

Brian H. Bornstein , Richard L. Wiener

From questions surrounding motives to the concept of crimes of passion, the intersection of emotional states and legal practice has long interested professionals as well as the public—recent cases involving extensive pretrial publicity, highly charged evidence, and...

The Motivational Impact of Nicotine and its Role in Tobacco Use

Rick A. Bevins , Anthony R. Caggiula

Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities

Debra A. Hope

Debra A. Hope The Nebraska Symposium on Motivation is steeped in history and tradition. Over the years the series editors have striven to maintain the highest standards of a- demic excellence and to highlight some of the most important trends in psychology. Perusing the...