Strong feelings: emotion, addiction and human behavior

"The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster's study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physic...

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Main Author: Elster, Jon 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] MIT Press 1999
Edition:1. print.
Series:The Jean Nicod lectures 1997
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Summary:"The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster's study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physical processes that underlie strong emotions and cravings. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the variety of human motivations who are dissatisfied with the prevailing reductionisms."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XII, 252 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0262050560

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