The Behavioral and social sciences : achievements and opportunities

The Behavioral and social sciences achievements and opportunities

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: National Research Council Staff (corporate author)
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council Staff Corporate Author (corporate author)
Otros Autores: Gerstein, Dean R. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press 1988.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Social sciences > Research > United States.
Human behavior > Research > United States.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Behavior, Mind, and Brain
  • SEEING AND HEARING
  • Visual Analyzers
  • Color Constancy
  • Depth and Motion
  • Perceiving Objects
  • Temporal Auditory Patterns
  • MEMORY
  • Types of Memory
  • Brain Structure and Neurotransmitters
  • COGNITION AND ACTION
  • Early Cognitive Development and Learning
  • Categorical Knowledge and Representation
  • Imagery
  • Individual Decision Making
  • Reasoning, Expertise, and Scientific Education
  • Complex Action
  • LANGUAGE
  • Acquisition
  • Sign Language
  • Grammatical Universals
  • Machines That Talk and Listen
  • Reading
  • Decoding and Dyslexias
  • Interpretation and Comprehension
  • OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS
  • 2 Motivational and Social Contexts of Behavior
  • AFFECT AND MOTIVATION
  • Emotional Expression, Perception, and Maturation
  • Emotive Circuitry and Metabolism in the Brain
  • Biobehavioral Rhythms
  • Patterns of Food Consumption
  • BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH
  • Prevention of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Abuse
  • Evaluating the Effects of Interventions
  • Addiction and the Marketplace
  • Prevention of AIDS
  • Stress, Risk of Illness, and Behavior
  • Behavior and Health Care Delivery Systems
  • CRIME AND VIOLENCE
  • Criminal Careers and the Effects of the Criminal Justice System
  • Antisocial and Prosocial Dispositions
  • ATTRIBUTIONS AND EXPECTANCIES IN SOCIAL INTERACTION
  • Expectancies, Self-Concepts, and Motives
  • Development of Close Relationships
  • Small Groups and Behavior
  • The Social Construction of Gender
  • OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS
  • 3 Choice and Allocation
  • COLLECTIVE CHOICE AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
  • Setting Agendas
  • Sequential and Simultaneous Votes
  • Electorates
  • Founding Political Systems
  • ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND CHANGE
  • Organizational Politics and Institutional Constraints.
  • Organizational Evolution
  • MARKETS AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
  • Public Goods and Strategic Revelation
  • Information Asymmetry and Transmission
  • Regulation and Deregulation
  • Rational Expectations
  • CONTRACTS
  • Principal-Agent Models
  • Bargaining, Negotiation, and Repeated Interaction
  • JOBS, WAGES, AND CAREERS
  • Unemployment
  • Implicit Labor Contracts
  • Job Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap
  • Technology, Migration, and Mobility
  • New Sources of Data on Jobs and Careers
  • OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS
  • 4 Institutions and Cultures
  • THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY
  • Social Organization in Prehistoric Times
  • Food, Tools, and Home Bases
  • Evolution of Language
  • DEMOGRAPHIC BEHAVIOR
  • Fertility and Lactation
  • Population Change in Developing Countries
  • Fertility and Migration in Developed Countries
  • MODERNIZATION: FAMILY AND RELIGION
  • The Nuclear Family and Social Change
  • Religion, Social Change, and Politics
  • SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND PUBLIC POLICY
  • The Shaping of Technology
  • The Development of Science
  • Behavioral and Social Sciences Knowledge and Public Policy
  • INTERNATIONALIZATION
  • International Finance and Domestic Policy
  • Cultural and Political Diffusion
  • The International Division of Labor
  • Productivity
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
  • Superpower Relations
  • Decision Making, Beliefs, and Cognitions
  • Cooperation and Conflict
  • OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS
  • 5 Methods of Data Collection, Representation, and Analysis
  • DESIGNS FOR DATA COLLECTION
  • Experimental Designs
  • Laboratory Experiments
  • Randomized Field Experiments
  • Survey Designs
  • Advances in Longitudinal Designs
  • Memory and the Framing of Questions
  • Comparative Designs
  • Ethnographic Designs
  • Ideological Systems
  • Historical Reconstruction
  • MODELS FOR REPRESENTING PHENOMENA
  • Probability Models.
  • Log-Linear Models for Categorical Variables
  • Regression Models for Categorical Variables
  • Models for Event Histories
  • Models for Multiple-Item Measurement
  • Nonlinear, Nonadditive Models
  • Geometric and Algebraic Models
  • Scaling
  • Ordered Factorial Systems
  • Clustering
  • Network Models
  • STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND ANALYSIS
  • Causal Inference
  • New Statistical Techniques
  • Internal Resampling
  • Robust Techniques
  • Many Interrelated Parameters
  • Missing Data
  • Computing
  • Computer Packages and Expert Systems
  • Exploratory Analysis and Graphic Presentation
  • Combining Evidence
  • OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS
  • 6 The Research Support System
  • HUMAN RESOURCES
  • Colleges and Graduate Schools
  • Undergraduate Education
  • Graduate Education
  • Postdoctoral Training and Collaboration
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships and Traineeships
  • Advanced Training Institutes
  • Collaboration and Communication
  • TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES
  • Computers
  • Neuroimaging Devices
  • Animal Care
  • DATA RESOURCES
  • Large-Scale Data Bases
  • Research Access to Government Data
  • Corporate and Local Government Archives
  • FUNDING RESOURCES
  • Modes of Support
  • Grant Size and Duration
  • The Disciplines and Interdisciplinary Research
  • Interdisciplinary Research Centers
  • THE PROBLEM OF VOICE
  • 7 Raising the Scientific Yield
  • RESEARCH FRONTIERS
  • Behavior, Mind, and Brain
  • Motivational and Social Contexts of Behavior
  • Choice and Allocation
  • Institutions and Cultures
  • Methods of Data Collection, Representation, and Analysis
  • RECOMMENDED NEW RESOURCES
  • Human Resources
  • Technological Resources
  • Data Resources
  • Interdisciplinary Research Centers
  • Investigator-Initiated Grants
  • Research Agency Changes
  • CONCLUSION
  • Appendix A Trends in Support for Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • FEDERAL SUPPORT.
  • The Diversity of Federal Support
  • National Science Foundation Support
  • PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS
  • Appendix B Working Group Members
  • SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES
  • PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY
  • INFORMATION AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES
  • LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING
  • DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE
  • HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR
  • AFFECT AND MOTIVATION
  • SOCIAL INTERACTION
  • GENDER STUDIES
  • INFORMATION AND DECISION MAKING
  • MARKET EFFICIENCY
  • JOBS AND INEQUALITY
  • MARKETS AND ORGANIZATIONS
  • COLLECTIVE CHOICE INSTITUTIONS
  • EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS
  • URBAN TRANSFORMATION AND MIGRATION
  • CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
  • FAMILY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
  • FORMAL AND LEGAL PROCESSES
  • CRIME AND VIOLENCE
  • RELIGION AND POLITICAL CHANGE
  • CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY
  • INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL LIFE
  • INTERNATIONAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY STUDIES
  • MACROECONOMIC POLICY
  • SOCIAL STUDIES OF MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCING INSTITUTIONS
  • LARGE-SCALE DATA NEEDS
  • STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
  • MEASUREMENT AND SCALING
  • ORIGINS OF HUMAN DISTINCTIVENESS
  • Index.

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