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We purchase an object or enter a scene not for their own sake but for the expectations we have of them. In other words, the stimulus provided by the total appearance of an object or scene engenders expectations of the outcome of our involvement with the object or event.

I realize more and more that to some degree psychol ogists study their own lives. Discussions with my husband, which helped me to get a better grasp on what male partners might be feeling, planted the seed for my subsequent book on men in dual-career 1 families, published in 1985.

After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment."

"A preeminent psychoanalyst explores the world of consensual S&M. An expert on the dynamics of perversion and erotic excitement, Dr. Stoller sets out on an expedition to the S&M community of West Holly"

The present work is focused on the mathematical and computational t- ory behind a technique for deformable image registration termed Hyperelastic Warping, and demonstration of the technique via applications in image regist- tion and strain measurement.

This volume summarizes current research on the influence of plant polyphenols on human health, promoting collaboration between chemists and biologists to improve our understanding of their biological significance, and expanding the possibilities for their use.

Science teachers come in many varieties, but they share a common goal: to nurture learners. Scientists teamed with teachers and their students represent a very real and rich opportunity to involve students in real science as practiced.

A careful reading provides family therapists and researchers with won derful opportunities to examine the ways in which history, socio economie and politieal contexts, and epidemiology can be used to in crease understanding of the family.

Proceedings of the Eighteenth NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 13-17, 1990

Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July 1--14, 1990

This volume is an overview of research examining the relationship between hormones and aggressive behavior.

This volume serves as an aid in the process of differential diagnosis which frequently confronts neuropsychologists. In addition to serving as a convenient source of information on symptom base rates, this volume also contains detailed cross referencing of symptoms across disorders.

In this extraordinary new text, the contributors explore the enduring legacy of such social shocks as war, genocide, slavery, tyranny, crime, and disease.

I n the wake of an earlier book (Solomon, 1993), this new work, Coping with War-Induced Stress: The Gulf War and the Israeli Response, promises to make Zahava Solomon a modern maven with respect to the psychologi cal effects of war.

Proceedings of an annual meeting held in Washington, D.C., October 30-November 2, 1988

With singular range, timeliness, and clarity, the newly updated Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology reflects and addresses the ongoing concerns of practitioners as diverse as neuropsychologists, neurologists, clinical psychologists, pediatricians, and physical and speech-language therapists.

They include the belief in the scientific method as the only valid approach to knowledge, the split between mind and matter, the view of nature as a mechanical system, the view of life in society as a competitive struggle for survival, and the belief in unlimited material progress to be achieved through economic and technological growth.

" Polite and some impolite questioning revealed that "Iiveware" was a euphemism for "people. " People are too important to be known as anything but people.

Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary.

This volume is for students and practitioners interested in improving their understanding and skills in the area of needs assessment. Examples are drawn from myriad public health efforts, recognizing that not all public health sector agencies bear direct responsibility for all activities that could be considered part of public health.

Offers a guide to the application of Systems Thinking. This book traces the emergence of holistic thinking in various disciplines. It details and provides a critique, based upon social theory, of the range of systems approaches, methodologies, models and methods. It also offers case studies to illustrate systems thinking applied to management.

The use of mathematical modeling techniques in biomedical research is playing an increasingly important role in the understanding of the pathophysiology of disease processes. This book offers the mathematical and statistical information necessary to design tracer kinetic studies.

Presents the study of premarital factors that predict breakup and marital quality. This book develops a theoretical rationale for predicted paths and tests those paths with the best statistical tools. It is useful to practitioners in their attempts to help individuals and couples make decisions about marriage, marital stability, and childrearing.

Synchronization is a critical function in digital communications; It is widely recognized that a fundamental understanding of digital synchronization can only be reached by providing the designer with a solid theoretical framework, or else he will not know where to adjust his methods when he attempts to apply them to new situations.

Distinguished psychologist G. William Domhoff brings together-for the first time-all the necessary tools needed to perform quantitative studies of dream content using the rigorous system developed by Calvin S. The book contains a comprehensive review of the literature, detailed coding rules, normative findings, and statistical tables.

In this volume we analyze the anthropological and biological disagreements and the positions taken on the origins of modern humans, point out difficultieswith the inter pretations, and suggest that the concept of the human origin can be explained only when we first attempt to define Homo sapiens sapiens.

The field has attained growing respectability, with a textbook recently published, a congressionally man dated National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, and a growing public awareness of the importance of sleep disorders.

This text provides a systematic approach to the diagnosis of children with multiple birth defects.