Self-Control in Animals and People
- 1st Edition - August 11, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Michael Beran
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 0 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 0 9 - 0
Self-Control in Animals and People takes an interdisciplinary look at what self-control is, how it works, and whether humans are alone as a species in their ability to demonstra… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSelf-Control in Animals and People takes an interdisciplinary look at what self-control is, how it works, and whether humans are alone as a species in their ability to demonstrate self-control. The book outlines historical and recent empirical approaches to understanding when self-control succeeds and fails, and which species may share with humans the ability to anticipate better future outcomes. It also provides readers with in-depth explorations of whether various species can delay gratification, the ways in which people and animals exhibit other forms of self-control, what influences the capacity and expression of self-control, and much more.
In addition to its comprehensive coverage of self-control research, the book also describes self-control assessment tests that can be used with young children, adults, and a wide variety of nonhuman species, with the goal of making fair and clear comparisons among the groups. This combination makes Self-Control in Animals and People a valuable resource for cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychologists, philosophers, academic students and researchers in psychology and the social sciences, and animal behaviorists.
- Provides a comprehensive perspective of the evolutionary emergence of self-control across species
- Explores different "kinds" of self-control and their links to one another, and whether self-control can be improved or strengthened
- Offers insight on mental time travel (chronesthesia) and how it relates to self-control
- Demonstrates how to develop self-control tests for human and nonhuman animals, and how to make fair and clear comparisons among those groups
Academic researchers in psychology and social sciences (including behavioral economists and philosophers); cognitive and clinical psychologists; graduate students in psychology courses; animal behaviorists
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 11, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 332
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128125083
- eBook ISBN: 9780128125090
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Michael Beran
Michael Beran is an associate professor of psychology at Georgia State University. He is a cognitive psychologist with 21 years of experience working with nonhuman primates, young children, human adults, and other species such as birds, bears, and elephants. His research on self-control and future-oriented cognition has been supported by grants from the NIH and NSF. He is the editor or co-editor of eight major journals in the fields of comparative and cognitive science, and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles (and more than 250 total publications) on aspects of human and animal cognition, including dozens of papers on self-control.
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