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"This book brings together work from a wide range of disciplines to explain processes underlying empathy and fairness. The expert contributors approach the topic of empathy and fairness from different viewpoints, namely those of social cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, evolutionary anthropology, economics and neuropathology. The result is an interdisciplinary and unitary framework focused on the neuronal, developmental, evolutionary and psychological basis of empathy and fairness."--Publisher's description, from p. [4] of cover

Covers the basic issues concerning the nature of the worldwide health problem posed by cigarette smoking. Exploring the psychoydnamics of cigarette addiction, this book reviews the pharmacology and biochemistry of nicotine and its effect on the brain. Italso covers various approaches to therapy, and discusses how best to treat nicotine addiction

Introduction : concepts of antisocial behaviour, of cause, and of genetic influences / Michael Rutter -- Issues in the search for candidate genes in mice as potential animal models of human aggression / Stephen C. Maxson -- Aggression from a developmental perspective : genes, environments and interactions / Robert B. Cairns -- A twin study of self-reported criminal behaviour / Michael J. Lyons -- Heterogeneity among juvenile antisocial behaviours : findings from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioural Development / Judy Silberg [and others] -- Predisposition to criminality : Swedish adoption studies in retrospect / Michael Bohman -- Assessing the role of genetics in crime using adoption cohorts / Patricia A. Brennan, Sarnoff A. Mednick and Bjorn Jacobsen -- Direct analysis of candidate genes in impulsive behaviours / D. Goldman, J. Lappalainen and N. Ozaki -- MAOA deficiency and abnormal behaviour : perspectives on an association / Han G. Brunner -- Serotonin in alcoholic violent offenders / Matti Virkkunen, David Goldman and Markku Linnoila -- Evolutionary adaptationism : another biological approach to criminal and antisocial behaviour / Martin Daly -- Chronic problems in understanding tribal violence and warfare / Napoleon A. Chagnon -- The implications for responsibility of possible genetic factors in the explanation of violence / Jonathan Glover -- Legal implications of genetics and crime research / Deborah W. Denno.

In search of spatial extremes / A. Stein [and others] -- Operational evaluation of air quality models / P.D. Sampson and P. Guttorp -- Assessing the human health risk of atmospheric particles / R.L. Smith, J.M. David and P. Speckman -- Ozone dose mapping and the utility of models / C.W. Anderson and R.I. Smith -- Measuring and modelling pollution for risk analysis / J.V. Zidek and N.D. Lee -- A preliminary statistical examination of the efffects of uncertainty and variability on environmental regulatory criteria for ozone / L.H. Cox [and others] -- Statistics and environmental policy : case studies from long-term environmental monitoring data / R. Goudey and G. Laslett -- Better late than never? Injecting statistical know-how into legislation on water quality / A.E. Warn -- Indicator quality for multidisciplinary systems / J. Riley -- Integrating data for sustainable development : introducing the distribution of resources framework / J. Heycox -- Does environmental data collection need statistics? / M.P.J. Pulles -- Air pollution statistics in policy applications / R.I. Smith -- Agriculture sector resource and environmental policy analysis : an economic and biophysical approach / R.M. House [and others].