Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior - Couverture rigide

Elster, Jon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262050560 ISBN 13 : 9780262050562

Editeur : Bradford Books, 1999

Synopsis

Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely linked to cognition and culture. They thus provide the ideal vehicle for Jon Elster's study of the interrelation between three explanatory approaches to behavior: neurobiology, culture, and choice.

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.

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bradford Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262050560
• ISBN 13: 9780262050562
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible