The Psychological Dieter explores a variety of research topics in psychology to explain how diet is acquired and why it is so difficult to change. While many healthier diets on the market will work, few (if any) will provide long-term solutions to healthier dieting. This is a key challenge for research psychologists who study diet and health. Based on scientific research and thinking, this book is one of the first to explore how psychology can help explain why shifting diet is so difficult and provides practical suggestions for what can be done to stop this trend. Professor Privitera...

Gregory J. Privitera gives students a full overview of the graduate school planning process. Starting with the freshman year, Privitera gives students a step-by-step concrete plan for how they can pursue opportunities in each year that will help them to stand out from the crowd in their graduate school application. The book begins and ends with a hypothetical graduate school selection committee meeting. Section II provides students with a step-by-step guide for how to manage their academics, scholarship, and activities from freshman to senior year--in a way that will help them stand out among...

The Student Study Guide With IBM(R) SPSS(R) Workbook for Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Third Edition includes a review of chapter learning objectives, chapter outlines and key terms, essential statistical formulas, special tips and insights for students, and chapter summaries. To help students practice skills, the guide offers word searches and crossword puzzles for each chapter, extensive practice quizzes linked to chapter learning objectives, and "SPSS in Focus" exercises which complement those in the core text.

Using a patient-centric approach, Patient-Centric Analytics in Health Care identifies how analytics can drive value in terms of managing quality, access, and cost of care for patients across diverse health-care settings.

An alternate workbook to accompany Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, this text helps students to practice their skills and offers `In Focus' sections for those using R, SAS or STATA as opposed to SPSS or Excel.