Strong feelings : emotion, addiction, and human behavior /

Strong feelings : emotion, addiction, and human behavior /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Elster, Jon, 1940-
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1999] ©1999
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The Jean Nicod lectures ; 1997 Jean Nicod lectures ; 1997.
Subject:	Emotions. Addicts -- Psychology. Compulsive behavior -- Etiology. Substance abuse -- Etiology. Choice (Psychology) Addicts -- Psychology. Choice (Psychology) Compulsive behavior -- Etiology. Emotions. Substance abuse -- Etiology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11980844

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ISBN:	9780262272315 0262272318 9780262262545 0262262541 0262050560
Notes:	"A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (OverDrive, viewed October 15, 2014).
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.
Other form:	Print version: Elster, Jon, 1940- Strong feelings. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262050560

Table of Contents:

Emotion
Addiction
Culture, emotion, and addiction
Choice, emotion, and addiction.