Bruce K. Alexander

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Bruce K. Alexander

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Bruce K. Alexander's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of British Columbia
Bachelors Psychology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Bruce K. Alexander is a psychologist and professor emeritus from Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has taught and conducted research on the psychology of addiction at Simon Fraser University since 1970. He retired from active teaching in 2005. Alexander and SFU colleagues conducted a series of experiments into drug addiction known as the Rat Park experiments. He has written two books about addiction: Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs and The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit .

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Bruce K. Alexander's Published Works

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Man the Hunter (1972) (1094)
The effect of housing and gender on morphine self-administration in rats (1978) (221)
Effect of early and later colony housing on oral ingestion of morphine in rats (1981) (215)
Background and gender effects on survival in the TgN(SOD1-G93A)1Gur mouse model of ALS (2005) (214)
MATERNAL BEHAVIOR OF SOCIALLY DEPRIVED RHESUS MONKEYS. (1964) (184)
The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit (2008) (145)
Opiate addiction: the case for an adaptive orientation. (1982) (122)
The Globalization of Addiction (2000) (111)
The effects of acute crowding on aggressive behavior of Japanese monkeys. (1971) (82)
DEFINING "ADDICTION" (2005) (79)
Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift (2012) (78)
The effect of housing and gender on preference for morphine-sucrose solutions in rats (2004) (73)
Opiate Addicts and Their Parents (1975) (62)
Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Out of the "War on Drugs" (1990) (62)
Parental Behavior of Adult Male Japanese Monkeys (1970) (56)
The Disease and Adaptive Models of Addiction: A Framework Evaluation (1987) (51)
Social organization of a troop of Japanese monkeys in a two-acre enclosure. (1969) (41)
Contributions of taste factors and gender to opioid preference in C57BL and DBA mice (2004) (39)
The Empirical and Theoretical Bases for an Adaptive Model of Addiction (1990) (36)
Interpersonal perception in addict families. (1977) (35)
The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society (2014) (33)
A Canadian perspective on drug policy (1993) (14)
Alternatives to the War on Drugs (1990) (14)
Beyond Vancouver's “Four Pillars” (2006) (13)
Theories of Opiate Addiction: Time for Pruning (1981) (12)
When experimental psychology is not empirical enough: The case of the "exposure orientation." (1984) (9)
Methadone treatment in British Columbia: bad medicine? (1987) (9)
The social structure of the Oregon troop of Japanese macaques (1967) (9)
The “Temperance Mentality”: A Survey of Students at a Canadian University (1994) (8)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization (2014) (8)
The “Temperance Mentality”: A Comparison of University Students in Seven Countries (1998) (7)
Drug Use, Dependence, and Addiction at a British Columbia University: Good News and Bad News (1985) (7)
“Cocaine-Related” Deaths: Media Coverage in the War on Drugs (1991) (7)
Dubious Consensus: Support for Anti-Drug Policy among Dutch and Canadian University Students (1992) (6)
A drug dispenser to measure individual drinking in rat colonies (1980) (6)
The prevalence of addiction among university students. (1988) (6)
5 Readiness for Harm Reduction: Coming to Grips with the ‘Temperance Mentality’ (1997) (5)
Why treat doctors like pushers? (1985) (4)
James M. Barrie and the Expanding Definition of Addiction (1982) (3)
Introduction: A Time for Change (1990) (2)
Canine teeth and rank in Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) (1971) (2)
American and Canadian Drug Policy (1996) (2)
Prospects for Stimulant Maintenance in Vancouver, Canada (2001) (2)
The Dislocation Theory of Addiction (2010) (1)
Addiction (2018) (1)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Re-imagining psychology (2014) (1)
What can professional psychotherapists do about heroin addiction? (1986) (1)
Failure to Find an Effect of Catheterization on Oral Morphine Consumption in Rats (1980) (1)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Materialism: Thomas Hobbes and the human machine (2014) (1)
Clinical and investigational study for the aetiological evaluation of patients in nontraumatic altered sensorium and its outcome (2019) (0)
Addiction is a Way of Adapting to Dislocation: Quantitative Research, Clinical Reports, and ‘Spam’ (2010) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Evolution: Charles Darwin and Homo sapiens as a work in progress (2014) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Preface (2014) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius and the sufficient self (2014) (0)
Review Feature Social Organization of Hamadryas Baboons H. Kummer (1969) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Medicine: Sigmund Freud and the world of neurotics (2014) (0)
Comprar The Globalization of Addiction A Study in Poverty of the Spirit | Bruce Alexander | 9780199588718 | Oxford University Press (2010) (0)
MARK TWAIN AND THE AMERICAN APPROACH TO DRUGS: A VIEW FROM CANADA (1998) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Introduction: Two histories of Western psychology (2014) (0)
Psychosocial Integration is a Necessity (2010) (0)
Addiction1, Addiction2, Addiction3, Addiction4 … (2010) (0)
Bruce K. Alexander on John Kleinig's “Framing Failure” (2012) (0)
Free-market Society Undermines Psychosocial Integration (2010) (0)
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A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Plato’s nature of intelligence and other faculties (2014) (0)
Replacing the BDMA (2022) (0)
Addiction and Society (2010) (0)
Whytreat doctors likepushers (1985) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: The search for Aunt Lena (2014) (0)
Superpower Rivalry, the American Grand Narrative, and the BDMA (2022) (0)
Treatment and harm reduction professionals need to make peace. (2009) (0)
Addiction is a Way of Adapting to Dislocation: The Myth of the Demon Drugs (2010) (0)
Monkey Taxonomy Old World Monkeys, Evolution, Systematics, and Behavior J. R. Napier P. H. Napier (1971) (0)
Socrates’ ‘Master Passions’ and Dikaiosunê1 (2010) (0)
Who are the Victims? What is the Cause? (1990) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Christianity: St. Augustine and the incomplete soul (2014) (0)
A final conversation with addiction professionals* (2022) (0)
Addiction is a Way of Adapting to Dislocation: Historical Evidence (2010) (0)
Anthropology Man the Hunter R. B. Lee I. de Vore (1970) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Rationalism: Plato and the “just” person (2014) (0)
A History of Psychology in Western Civilization: Empiricism: John Locke, David Hume, and experience as reality (2014) (0)
The Role of Addiction in the Civilised Madness of the 21st Century (2010) (0)
New Publication: Psychoactive Drugs: Improving Prescribing Practices (1989) (0)
Prescribing Heroin: The Logical Next Step for Canada? (2013) (0)
Social Actions to Control Addiction: Question Period (2010) (0)
Spiritual Treatment for Addiction: The ‘Fifth Pillar’ (2010) (0)

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