Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the Paradox of Self-Defeating Behavior

by Steven Berglas and Roy F. Baumeister

Book Overview

Most people would agree that a basic human goal is to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Yet people constantly seem to sabotage that very goal. This is a probing look at what lies beneath our surprising inclination to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465076807
• ISBN13: 9780465076802
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.4"