Overview
- Contributors are preeminent and internationally renowned scholars and rising stars in the field
- Chapters reflect the broad range of theories, approaches, methods, and techniques to study impulsivity
- Works towards an integrative and transdisciplinary view of impulsivity
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (NSM, volume 64)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- emotion regulation
- intertemporal decision making
- delayed gratification
- risk taking in adolescence
- brain's reward systems
- behavioral endocrinology
- evolution of decision making
- drug abuse and impulsivity
- addiction and behavioral neuroscience
- impulsive disinhibition
- discounting models
- adaptive foraging
- neural underpinnings of decision making
- brain mechanisms for risk taking
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impulsivity
Book Subtitle: How Time and Risk Influence Decision Making
Editors: Jeffrey R. Stevens
Series Title: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51721-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51720-9Published: 06 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84726-9Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51721-6Published: 29 March 2017
Series ISSN: 0146-7875
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9479
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 280
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral/Experimental Economics