Self-Control in Animals and People

ISBN-13: 9780128125083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 332 str.

Michael Beran

Spis treści

1. What is Self-Control and What is it Good For?2. Self-Control and Other Forms of Inhibitory Control3. Human Intertemporal Choices: Choosing Between Now and Later4. Intertemporal Choices by Nonhuman Animals5. Children's Delay of Gratification: How Long Would You Wait for Marshmallows?6. The Reverse-Reward Task: Why Pointing Away from What You Want is so Difficult for Animals7. Would Animals Pass a Version of the Marshmallow Test?8. Other Tests of Self-Control and Delay of Gratification in Animals9. How Do We Know Whether We Are Measuring Self-Control? Methodological Concerns Lead to a New Test10. Is Self-Control Like a Muscle? 11. Do Animals Flex Their Own Self-Control "Muscle"?12. Are Animal Tests of Self-Control All Measuring the Same Thing?13. Self-Control and Social Settings14. Mental Time Travel: What Is It, and How Does It Relate to Self-Control?15. Worth Waiting For: Final Thoughts on Self-Control and the Future of Future-Oriented Research with People and Animals

O autorze

Michael Beran is an associate professor of psychology at Georgia State University. He is a cognitive psychologist with 21 years of experience working with nonhuman primates, young children, human adults, and other species such as birds, bears, and elephants. His research on self-control and future-oriented cognition has been supported by grants from the NIH and NSF. He is the editor or co-editor of eight major journals in the fields of comparative and cognitive science, and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles (and more than 250 total publications) on aspects of human and animal cognition, including dozens of papers on self-control.