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Worksite smoking modification programs: A state-of-the-art review and directions for future research
This article reviews the worksite smoking cessation literature. The evidence linking smoking and disease is outlined and reasons to quit smoking are...
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Behavioral Health: Focus on Preventive Child Health Behavior
In the past several decades, and within this century in particular, there has been a major shift in the nature of the ills which threaten man’s...
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Community Mobilization, Self-Help Approaches and Nongovernmental Voluntary Measures
The use of psychoactive substances by human beings for recreational or religious purposes is well known. For centuries many nations have tried to...
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Achievement and Shortfall in the Narcissistic Leader
Conservative parties have dominated Australian federal politics since the Second World War. Coming to power in 1949 under Mr. (later Sir) Robert...
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Discrimination and Prejudice as Weapons in Group Conflict
Explanations for discrimination and prejudice are best sought in the general body of sociological, anthropological, and psychological theory about...
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Social Marketing of Health Behavior
We are coming to recognize that there is a marketplace of ideas just as there is a marketplace of goods. Examples abound of organizations striving to...
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Psychobiological Aspects of Health and Disease
A perspective on health and illness that focuses on both psychological and biological factors has existed for centuries. Some thousand years ago,...
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Characteristics of Rural America
Our purpose here is to present a general demographic profile of rural America. This profile is not meant to be exhaustive; for example, a discussion...
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Studying Cognitive Performance in the Elderly
The concept of a biopsychosocial model of human health and illness has been known intuitively to clinicians and researchers since the times of the...
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The Psychologist as Health Care Clinician
Clearly, the health care field is turf dominated by the physician, and working in that field means involvement with physicians. As we will explore...
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Group size and satisfaction in shop stewards' meetings and management/union consultative committees
The investigation examined a number of variables previously observed in laboratory studies. Two kinds of groups were studied: shop stewards'...
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The Impact of Marijuana Decriminalization
The Canadian government and several states in the United States are considering various legislative options regarding marijuana laws. In the face of...
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Behavioral Approaches to Prevention
Man’s search for a more rewarding existence occasionally leads him to ponder the possibility of a world free of disease, ignorance, poverty, and...
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Sex Differences in the Prevalence of Problem Drinking
“If the many hidden alcoholics among women came out into the open and sought treatment, there would be a one to one ratio with male alcoholics ......
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Down to gentility: Women in Tanzania
It is hypothesized that in traditional African (and more specifically Tanzanian) society the roles of men and women were different but less unequal...
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Deviant behavior and self-enhancement in adolescence
The hypothesis that “among initially high self-derogation subjects deviant response patterns (alcohol and drug abuse, delinquent patterns, etc.) are...
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B. F. Skinner’s Walden II
An oft-cited credo in the halls of academe is that a specialist who seeks to extend the application of his discipline to broad questions of social...