Addiction as Consumer Choice

Addiction as Consumer Choice
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 263
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781134472246
ISBN-13 : 1134472242
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Addiction as Consumer Choice by : Gordon Foxall

Download or read book Addiction as Consumer Choice written by Gordon Foxall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking characteristic of addictive behavior is the pursuit of immediate reward at the risk of longer-term detrimental outcomes. It is typically accompanied by the expression of a strong desire to cease from or at least control consumption that has such consequences, followed by lapse, further resolution, relapse, and so on. Understood in this way, addiction includes substance abuse as well as behavioral compulsions like excessive gambling or even uncontrollable shopping. Behavioral economics and neurophysiology provide well-worn paths to understanding this behavior and this book regards them as central components of this quest. However, the specific question it seeks to answer is, What part does cognition – the desires we pursue and the beliefs we have about how to accomplish them – play in explaining addictive behavior? The answer is sought in a methodology that indicates why and where cognitive explanation is necessary, the form it should take, and the outcomes of employing it to understand addiction. It applies the Behavioral Perspective Model (BPM) of consumer choice, a tried and tested theory of more routine consumption, ranging from everyday product and brand choice, through credit purchasing and environmental despoliation, to the more extreme aspects of consumption represented by compulsion and addiction. The book will advance debate among behavioral scientists, cognitive psychologists, and other professionals about the nature of economic and social behavior.


Addiction as Consumer Choice Related Books

Addiction as Consumer Choice
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: Gordon Foxall
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-12 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A striking characteristic of addictive behavior is the pursuit of immediate reward at the risk of longer-term detrimental outcomes. It is typically accompanied
Addiction
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Gene M. Heyman
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction—that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control
Addiction Is a Choice
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Jeffrey A. Schaler
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-30 - Publisher: Open Court

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Politicians and the media tell us that people who take drugs, including alcohol or nicotine, cannot help themselves. They are supposedly victims of the disease
Addiction and Choice
Language: en
Pages: 529
Authors: Nick Heather
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Views on addiction are often polarised - either addiction is a matter of choice, or addicts simply can't help themselves. But perhaps addiction falls between th
Choice, Behavioral Economics, and Addiction
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Rudolph Eugene Vuchinich
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-13 - Publisher: Elsevier

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction is about the theory, data, and applied implications of choice-based models of substance use and addiction. The disti