Breakdown of Will

West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr. New. 2001. Hardcover. 052159300X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 270 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface * Pt. I Breakdowns of Will: the Puzzle of Akrasia * 1 Introduction * 2 The Dichotomy at the Root of Decision Science: Do We Make Choices By Desires or By Judgments? * 3 The Warp in How We Evaluate the Future * 4 The Warp Can Create Involuntary Behaviors: Pains, Hungers, Emotions * Pt. II A Breakdown of the Will: the Components of Intertemporal Bargaining * 5 The Elementary Interaction of Interests * 6 Sophisticated Bargaining among Internal Interests * 7 The Subjective Experience of Intertemporal Bargaining * 8 Getting Evidence about a Nonlinear Motivational System * Pt. III The Ultimate Breakdown of Will: Nothing Fails Like Success * 9 The Downside of Willpower * 10 An Efficient Will Undermines Appetite * 11 The Need to Maintain Appetite Eclipses the Will * 12 Conclusions * Notes * References * Name Index * Subject Index. -- 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. -- with a bonus offer-- .