A brief core text or supplement for sophomore through graduate-level courses in Behavior Modification, Abnormal Psychology, Learning, Motivation, and Self-Management, or for seminar courses in Self-Control.
This is the first text to synthesize the basic research on self-control and to integrate it with the associated applied research literature.
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1.0 out of 5 starsShe should have waited until tomorrow to publish, August 18, 1998
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The book is pathetic. For example, Logue does not understand basic mathematics. She assumes that all delayed reinforcements are related to the inverse of a monomial. This fails to capture the few cases where one can make proper study, such as compound interest, which has exponential decay. Moreover, her model leads to an infinite value for no delay in gratification which would make the model mute. More seriously, she assumes that self control is the only way to run one's life. This book is not science, it is bad religion. She should be embarrassed.
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