Knight Dunlap
Habits: Their Making and Unmaking
- ISBN 13:
- 9780871402677
- author:
- Knight Dunlap
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2007
- Pages:
- 292
- Genre:
- Biological Psychology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Habits Their Making and Unmaking
Professor Dunlap explores the relationship between habit formation and breaking, arguing that maladjustments are acquired through the learning process and can be removed by the same process. He suggests that certain acts, such as stuttering, can be made non-habitual by intentionally repeating them until the repulsion towards them outweighs the original tendency.
Originally published in 1932, this work challenged popular views on habit formation and has since become a seminal work in the field of behavioral psychology.