Impulse : : Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It / / David Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
• VerfasserIn: Lewis, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.) :; 17 halftones, 1 table
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. The Impulse That Saved My Life --; Chapter 2. Impulses and Your Zombie Brain --; Chapter 3. Inside the Impulsive Brain --; Chapter 4. The Teenage Brain – A Work in Progress --; Chapter 5. Impulse and the Senses --; Chapter 6. The Power of the Visual --; Chapter 7. Impulses and the Risk-Taking Personality --; Chapter 8. The Love Impulse – ‘It Only Takes a Moment’ --; Chapter 10. The Overeating Impulse – Digging Our Graves with Our Teeth --; Chapter 10. The Buying Impulse – The How and Why of What We Buy --; Chapter 11. The Imitation Impulse – ‘A Beautiful Place to Die’ --; Chapter 12. Deplete Us Not Into Temptation --; Afterword: Free Will Is a Grand Illusion --; Notes and References --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674729902; 9783110317350; 9783110317121; 9783110317114; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674729902
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Lewis.

Impulse explores what people do despite knowing better, along with snap decisions that occasionally enrich their lives. This eye-opening account looks at two kinds of thinking--one slow and reflective, the other fast but prone to error--and shows how our mental tracks switch from the first to the second, leading to impulsive behavior.