The Science of Self-Control By Professor Howard Rachlin Publisher: Harvard University Press 2000 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 0674000935 | PDF | 2 MB

… , in-treatment sex offenders, and never-treated sex offenders to determine whether their behavior reflected the General Theory of Crime. She explored the link between abusive parenting and … and routine activities in victim selection. Data showed moderate support for the self-control assertion that offenders do not specialize and high support for the generality of deviance. Although in-treatment sex offenders differed in self-control, mixed results were found for the relationship between low self-control and …

… lead to socioemotional competence in this pivotal period, covering both typical and atypical development. Presented are innovative research programs that have yielded compelling insights into toddlers' relationships, emotions, play, communication, prosocial behavior, self-control, autonomy, and attempts to understand themselves and others. The final chapter presents a systematic framework for socioemotional assessment.

… cybernetics as a basis for neural network modeling. It brings together neurobiologists and the engineers who design intelligent automata to understand the physics of collective behavior pertinent to neural elements and the self-control aspects of neurocybernetics. The theoretical perspectives and explanatory projections portray the most current information in the field, some of which counters certain conventional concepts …

Daniel W. Howe "Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln" Harvard University Press | English | 1997-04-30 | ISBN: 0674165551 | 342 pages | PDF | 1 MB

… closer to appreciating how free will and consciousness might operate. It draws from philosophy and psychology, the two fields that have grappled most fundamentally with these issues. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors explore such issues as how free will is connected to rational choice, planning, and self-control;

J. A. Scott Kelso, "Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems)" The MIT Press | 1995-04-27 | ISBN: 0262611317 | 354 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation Wiley-Blackwell (2010-03-08) | ISBN: 1405177128 | 512 pages | PDF | 1.4 MB The Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation integrates scholarly research on self-regulation in the personality, developmental, and social psychology traditions for a broad audience of social and behavioral scientists interested in the processes by which people control, or fail to control, their own behavior.

… sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint. In order to … and social order, white politicians legalized eugenic sterilization, increased state efforts to control venereal disease and prostitution, cracked down on interracial marriage, and enacted statewide … white elites who sought to expand government's role in regulating sexual behavior had, like most southerners, a tradition of favoring small government, so …

The Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior The MIT Press | 2000 | ISBN: 0262032775 | Pages: 302 | PDF | 2.25 MB