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100 _aAinslie, George
245 _aBreakdown of will
260 _aCambridge
_bCambridge University Press
_c2001
300 _axi, 258 p. : ill.
_bIncludes bibliographical references and index
520 _aAinslie 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.
650 _aWill
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650 _aChoice (Psychology)
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650 _aSelf-deafeating behavior
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