Strong feelings
Subtitle: emotion, addiction, and human behavior
By: Jon Elster.
Series: The Jean Nicod lectures ;; 1997
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Emotions; Addicts -- Psychology; Compulsive behavior -- Etiology; Substance abuse -- Etiology; Choice (Psychology)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index.
"A Bradford book."