This volume presents reports from three recent scientific meetings on special topics.

The first report discusses scientific perspectives on individuals' drive to consume, presented at the conference -The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption: Mechanisms of Allocating Resources Across Disciplines- at the University of Michigan in May 2010. Sponsored by Rackham Graduate School and the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, the conference included presentations on human, primate, and rodent models and spanned multiple domains of consumption, including reward...