Description
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. This perspective helps us understand so much that is puzzling in human action and interaction: from self-defeating behaviors to willfulness, from pathological over-control and self-deception to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism, sadism, gambling, and the "social construction" of belief.
Author: George Ainslie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/19/2001
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780521593007
ISBN10: 052159300X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism
- Self-Help | Motivational & Inspirational
Author: George Ainslie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/19/2001
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780521593007
ISBN10: 052159300X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism
- Self-Help | Motivational & Inspirational
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