Is resolve mainly about resisting hyperbolic discounting?
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2021-04-26
Authors
Ross, Don
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Cambridge University Press
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Abstract
Ainslie insightfully refines the concept of willpower by emphasizing low-effort applications of resolve. However, he gives undue weight to intertemporal discounting as the problem that willpower is needed to overcome. Nonhumans typically don't encounter choices that differ only in the time of consumption. Humans learn to transform uncertainty into problems they can solve using culturally evolved mechanisms for quantifying risk.
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Consumption , Rewards , Markets , Willpower
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Ross D. (2021) 'Is resolve mainly about resisting hyperbolic discounting?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e52. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000837