• Preface; Prologue; 1. Brief history of reward magnitude research; 2. Successive contrast: procedures and parameters; 3. Successive contrast: psychopharmacology and neurobiology; 4. Successive contrast: theories; 5. Anticipatory and simultaneous contrast; 6. Contrast with differential conditioning in runway and operant tasks; 7. Summary and epilogue; Appendix; References; Author index; Subject index.

"The strength of Flaherty's book lies in its very thorough and clear review of the literature on the different varieties of contrast. ...it provides valuable background for researchers intrigued by the puzzles of contrast and by the questin of how to compute relative value temporally distant events." K. Geoffrey White, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

• Preface; Prologue; 1. Brief history of reward magnitude research; 2. Successive contrast: procedures and parameters; 3. Successive contrast: psychopharmacology and neurobiology; 4. Successive contrast: theories; 5. Anticipatory and simultaneous contrast; 6. Contrast with differential conditioning in runway and operant tasks; 7. Summary and epilogue; Appendix; References; Author index; Subject index.

"The strength of Flaherty's book lies in its very thorough and clear review of the literature on the different varieties of contrast. ...it provides valuable background for researchers intrigued by the puzzles of contrast and by the questin of how to compute relative value temporally distant events." K. Geoffrey White, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

• Preface; Prologue; 1. Brief history of reward magnitude research; 2. Successive contrast: procedures and parameters; 3. Successive contrast: psychopharmacology and neurobiology; 4. Successive contrast: theories; 5. Anticipatory and simultaneous contrast; 6. Contrast with differential conditioning in runway and operant tasks; 7. Summary and epilogue; Appendix; References; Author index; Subject index.

"The strength of Flaherty's book lies in its very thorough and clear review of the literature on the different varieties of contrast. ...it provides valuable background for researchers intrigued by the puzzles of contrast and by the questin of how to compute relative value temporally distant events." K. Geoffrey White, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology