Peer-Reviewed Journal Details
Mandatory Fields
Ross Don
2021
April
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Is resolve mainly about resisting hyperbolic discounting?
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Optional Fields
Consumption Rewards Markets
44
e52
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.
1469-1825
10.1017/S0140525X20000837
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