Incentive Relativity
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Part of Problems in the Behavioural Sciences
- Author: Charles F. Flaherty, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Date Published: June 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521658638
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Disappointment and recovery occur frequently in life; as does irritation regarding ones financial or economic state compared to others. Incentive relativity is the study of this phenomenon, and this book provides a full account of the subject, suitable for behavioral scientists and psychologists. The book shows that animals also respond on the basis of the relative value of rewards - current compared to previous, to the reward available in one situation versus what is available in another context. These relativity effects are stressful in animals but they may also be adaptive, driving animals to seek the best that is available. The book demonstrates that animal research may lead to an understanding of individual differences in discernment and susceptibility to disappointment and to an understanding of both the advantages and disadvantages of dissatisfaction.
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- Date Published: June 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521658638
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue
1. Brief history of reward magnitude research
2. Successive contrast: procedures and parameters
3. Successive contrast: psychopharmacology and neurobiology
4. Successive contrast: theories
5. Anticipatory and simultaneous contrast
6. Contrast with differential conditioning in runway and operant tasks
7. Summary and epilogue
Appendix
References
Author index
Subject index.
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