Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior

by Jon Elster

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262050560
• ISBN13: 9780262050562
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.3"