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This collection of original essays by members of the National
Academy of Sciences' Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual
Behavior offers innovative perspectives on self-control over the
use of habituating substances and related types of behavior. The
authors review the powerful social-psychological influences of
normative rules and interpersonal circumstances in developing
individual capacities for self-control in, for example, the use of
heroin. They also look at experimental contingencies under which
animals engage in self-harming behavior; the induction of
exaggerated consumption behavior, such as massive fluid drinking by
laboratory rats; and studies of environmental and genetic
influences on neurophysiological sensitivity to and preference for
alcohol in laboratory mouse strains. The concluding chapter
presents an unorthodox perspective on ways of self-governing the
consumption of cigarettes and other substances, recognizing the
peculiarities of the processes of human choice. In his
introduction, volume editor Peter Levison contrasts the diverse
approaches reflected in the book with the common-sense notion of
self-control.
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