Achieving environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability is predicated on changing human behavior; the purview of Psychologists. For instance, research based in cognitive, social, and behavioral psychology has informed initiatives regarding public education and advocacy, framing of messages, decision making, incentive-based regulation, and social marketing. This special issue of S...

Department of International Development, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, University of Warwick, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, Warwick, UK, Instituto de Investigación Nutric...

This paper explores the relationship bet ween economics and the other social sciences and the implications for public policymaking. There are significant limitations inherent in applying the abstract and fragmentary conclusions Of economics directh to public policy matters without first resynthesizing those conclusions to the larger body of knowledge about human behavior and social structure. T...

The 21 century will be characterized by global change at an unprecedented scale. Human activity on the planet has reached a dimension which alters the earth system as a whole, mainly as a combination of population growth, resource use, waste disposal, and technological advances. In order to meet the challenges of global change, human society has to develop a more comprehensive global informatio...

ability to have good interpersonal relationship without social anxiety is the inseparable component of an effective nursing care process. the purpose of this study was to determine relationship between social anxiety and some demographic characteristics in undergraduate nursing students. this descriptive analytic study includes 400 students from tehran university of medical sciences who were re...

In their recent work Thomas S. Schelling (2007, 2010), reiterating original arguments about game theory and its applications to social sciences. In particular, game theory helps to explore situations in which agents make decisions interdependent (strategic communication). Schelling's originality is to extend economic theory to social sciences. When a player can anticipate the options and influe...

In 1976, two years before the Alma Ata Declaration, the then Director-General of WHO, Dr. Halfdan Mahler, proclaimed a ‘‘social revolution in public health’’ [1]. He saw the establishment of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) Programme in 1975 as playing an active part in the emerging social and health development agenda. In TDR’s first public document, M...