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Obese Humans and Rats

Stanley Schacter, Judith Rodin - Psychology - 2014 - 203 pages
Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ventro-medial hypothalamic ...
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Social Experimentation: a Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention

Henry W. Riecken, Robert F. Boruch - Social Science - 2013 - 358 pages
Social Experimentation: A Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention summarizes the available knowledge about how randomized experiments might be used in planning ...
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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails ...

Timothy Jenkins - Social Science - 2013 - 100 pages
What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s ...
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Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy

Jon R. Stone - Religion - 2013 - 300 pages
The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of expectation of the ...
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