1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450035903321

Autore

Ainslie George <1944->

Titolo

Breakdown of will / / George Ainslie [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11440-3

1-280-42927-5

1-139-16419-8

0-511-17379-2

0-511-01766-9

0-511-15303-1

0-511-30219-3

0-511-05436-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

153.8

Soggetti

Will

Choice (Psychology)

Self-defeating behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Dichotomy at the Root of Decision Science: Do We Make Choices By Desires or By Judgments?; 3 The Warp in How We Evaluate the Future; 4 The Warp Can Create Involuntary Behaviors: Pains, Hungers, Emotions; 5 The Elementary Interaction of Interests; 6 Sophisticated Bargaining among Internal Interests; 7 The Subjective Experience of Intertemporal Bargaining; 8 Getting Evidence about a Nonlinear Motivational System; 9 The Downside of Willpower; 10 An Efficient Will Undermines Appetite; 11 The Need to Maintain Appetite Eclipses the Will; 12 Conclusions

NotesReferences; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive



psychologists. The forces that create and constrain these populations help us understand so much that is puzzling in human action and interaction: from addictions and other self-defeating behaviors to the experience of willfulness, from pathological over-control and self-deception to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism, sadism, gambling, and the 'social construction' of belief. This book integrates approaches from experimental psychology, philosophy of mind, microeconomics, and decision science to present one of the most profound and expert accounts of human irrationality available. It will be of great interest to philosophers and an important resource for professionals and students in psychology, economics and political science.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386959203316

Autore

Priaulx John <1614?-1674.>

Titolo

Confirmation confirmed and recommended from Scripture, antiquity, and reason [[electronic resource] ] : in a sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Mary in Sarum, at a solemn confirmation there administered by the Right Reverend Father in God Humphrey, Lord Bishop of Sarum / / by John Priaulx .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by I.R. for Iohn Courtney ..., 1662

Descrizione fisica

[4], 35, [1] p

Soggetti

Confirmation sermons

Confirmation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113