1. Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran 2. Center for Health Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran 3. Dept. of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Reproductive Studies and Women...

Roghieh Kharaghani, Mohammad Shariati, Afsaneh Keramat, Masud Yunesian, Alireza Moghisi. Department of Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran; Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Institute for Environmental Research, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Center for Health Related S...

1. Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran. 2. Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. School of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran. 4. Department of Psychiatry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; Tehran, Iran. 5. Behavioral Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sc...

The social and behavioral sciences are at a crossroads in public health. In this paper, we attempt to describe a path toward the further integration of the natural and behavioral sciences with respect to the study of behavior and health. Three innovations are proposed. First, we extend and modify the "stream of causation" metaphor along two axes: time, and levels of nested systems of social and...

Advances in the science of nutrition are calling for a new approach to public health—one that requires nutritionists to be skilled in the behavioral sciences and social marketing in order to impact the preventable etiologies of obesity and chronic diseases. Grounded in the science of nutrition, this book offers practical guidance and tools to prepare students to develop and implement effective ...

The concepts of deutero-learning and double bind have acquired an increasingly important status in various fields of social and behavioral science, particularly in psychiatry, psychotherapy, organization, and policy science. With this proliferation, however, their original meaning and significance has become increasingly muted. In this article it is argued that both concepts are important ingre...

in this study, the attitudes of 150 nurses about smoking in tehran faculties of medical sciences belong to ministry of health and medical education has been investigated. samples were selected based on random sampling and data collection tool was questionnaire about the cognitive , emotional and behavioral attitudes . research findings showed that the majority of subjects have positive attitude...

Framing effects have a significant influence on the finitely repeated matching pennies game. The combination of being labelled "a guesser", and having the objective of matching the opponent’s action, appears to be advantageous. We find that being a player who aims to match the opponent’s action is advantageous irrespective of whether the player moves first or second. We examine alternative expl...

The fact that the more resourceful people are sharing with the poor to mitigate inequality-egalitarian sharing-is well documented in the behavioral science research. How inequality evolves as a result of egalitarian sharing is determined by the structure of "who gives whom". While most prior experimental research investigates allocation of resources in dyads and groups, the paper extends the re...

The emergence of behavioral economics is one of the most significant conceptual developments in the social sciences in the past 40 years. The central figure in the field in its early years was Richard Thaler. In this article, I review and discuss his scientific contributions. JEL classification: B2, D9, G1