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Habits of Thinking: Working Within Correctional Environments to Introduce and Sustain Personal Change  


Author:  Ray Ferns.


Source: Volume 17, Number 02, Winter 2008 , pp.9-11(3)




Journal of Community Justice (formerly Journal of Community Corrections)

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Abstract: 

Explores the influence of cognitive structures (i.e., patterns of thinking, attitudes and beliefs, and emotions) on human biology and behavior, presents evidence from Social Learning Theory and evolutionary biology on the impact of patterns of thinking on behavioral outcomes, and poses the question of how best to derail counterproductive patterns of automatic thinking.

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Affiliations:  1: University of Oregon.

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