| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 183 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; 1. Attribution Theory: Explaining Explanation; The Bases of Attribution Theory; Attribution as Lawful Explanation; The Work of Michotte and Heider on the Perception of Causality; Extending the Framework of Attribution; 2. Attribution Theory and Attributional Research; Locus of Control and Cognitive Style; Witkin's Studies of Field Dependence; Inadequacy Explanations of Drug Use; 3. Volitional and Non-Volitional Explanations; The Preference for External Explanations |
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The Behaviourist Approach of B.F. SkinnerThe Behaviourist Legacy; The Legacy of the Skinner Box; Addiction as Skinner Box; 4. Addiction, Withdrawals and Craving; Addiction as Disease; Craving; 'Having to Have', or Just Wanting'?; Withdrawals; Cures for Taking Drugs; In Conclusion; 5. Pharmacology and Compulsion; Self-Reports from Humans; 6. The Problem of 'Addictive Substances'; The Issue of 'Real' and 'Bogus' Addicts; The Compulsive Gambler; Alcoholics Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous; The Role of Internally-Produced States; 7. Disease as the Preferred Explanation for 'Badness' |
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Dyslexia as Functional ExplanationDyslexia; An Alternative View; 8. The Nature of the Evidence: Methodological Problems; Answers to Questions: True or False?; Interviewer Effects; Retrospective Recall; Retrieval or Construction?; People's Propensity to Make Sense of Their Lives; 9. Attribution: A Dynamic Approach to How People Explain Their Actions; Attribution and the Expurgation of Guilt; Attributional 'Verdicts'; An Attributional Framework for Addiction; Addiction: A Stable/Internal Attribution; Attributional Bias; The Actor-Observer Effect; Self-Serving Bias; Positivity Bias |
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Some Thoughts on the Possibility of Paradoxical AttributionBelief in God: A Functional, External, Paradoxical Locus; The Third Stream; 10. Functional Explanations for Drug Use; J. Richard Eiser (1977 et seq); Davies and Baker (1988); Coggans and Davies (1988); McAllister and Davies (1991); Ogden and Wardle (1990); Hood (1988); Edwards, Brown, Duckitt, Oppenheimer, Sheehan and Taylor (1987); Hammersley, Morrison, Davies and Forsyth (1990); McConnochie (1996); The Widening Perspective; 11. A Context for Drug Problems; Attributions and Lies; Where Does Truth Lie?; Drug Use and Context |
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Drug Use and AIDS/HIVLiving with Drugs; Addiction; A Systems Problem; Addiction; Exploding the Myth; References; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Previous edition published in 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Drug addicts -- Psychology
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Drug abuse -- Etiology
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Self-control.
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Attribution (Social psychology)
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Substance-Related Disorders -- psychology
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Opioid-Related Disorders -- psychology
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Attribution (Social psychology)
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Drug abuse -- Etiology
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Drug addicts -- Psychology
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Self-control
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317821564 |
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1317821564 |
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9781317821571 |
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1317821572 |
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