Impulse : : Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It /

Impulse : : Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It / / 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 se...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Lewis, David,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.) :; 17 halftones, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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