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Acting against our better judgment is a bit of a puzzle: if we know what’s “best,” & nothing is preventing us, why don’t we do it? Who is it that’s doing the controlling or being controlled in “self-control?”
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- Links for the Curious -
First Person Plural (Bloom, 2008) - https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/everything/bloom2008a.pdf
A Multiple Self Theory of the Mind - journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/02.09.28.CP.1.5
A Dual-Self Model of Impulse Control (Fudenberg & Levine, 2006) - https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=9f0ba1f9eef4ff2493ccbd0a50f8af7635d4f6b7
From dual processes to multiple selves: Implications for economic behavior (Alós-Ferrer & Strack, 2014) - sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167487013001517
I, Too, Sail Past - Odysseus and the Logic of Self-Control (Sally, 2000) - researchgate.net/profile/David-Sally/publication/4775007_I_Too_Sail_Past_Odysseus_and_the_Logic_of_Self-Control/links/5dee77dc4585159aa470e787/I-Too-Sail-Past-Odysseus-and-the-Logic-of-Self-Control.pdf
Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01210.x
Emotions and Decision Making (Lerner et al, 2014) - https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jenniferlerner/files/annual_review_manuscript_june_16_final.final_.pdf
Fluctuating capacity and advance decision-making in Bipolar Affective Disorder — Self-binding directives and self-determination (Gergel & Owen, 2015) - sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252715000680
The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment - hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment
Embodied Akrasia: James On Motivation And Weakness Of Will - jstor.org/stable/26493690
Discourse on the Passions (Hume) - davidhume.org/texts/p/full
Weakness of Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weakness-will/
Acting against our better judgment is a bit of a puzzle: if we know what’s “best,” & nothing is preventing us, why don’t we do it? Who is it that’s doing the controlling or being controlled in “self-control?”
THUNK Patreon: patreon.com/THUNKShow
- Links for the Curious -
First Person Plural (Bloom, 2008) - https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/everything/bloom2008a.pdf
A Multiple Self Theory of the Mind - journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/02.09.28.CP.1.5
A Dual-Self Model of Impulse Control (Fudenberg & Levine, 2006) - https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=9f0ba1f9eef4ff2493ccbd0a50f8af7635d4f6b7
From dual processes to multiple selves: Implications for economic behavior (Alós-Ferrer & Strack, 2014) - sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167487013001517
I, Too, Sail Past - Odysseus and the Logic of Self-Control (Sally, 2000) - researchgate.net/profile/David-Sally/publication/4775007_I_Too_Sail_Past_Odysseus_and_the_Logic_of_Self-Control/links/5dee77dc4585159aa470e787/I-Too-Sail-Past-Odysseus-and-the-Logic-of-Self-Control.pdf
Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01210.x
Emotions and Decision Making (Lerner et al, 2014) - https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jenniferlerner/files/annual_review_manuscript_june_16_final.final_.pdf
Fluctuating capacity and advance decision-making in Bipolar Affective Disorder — Self-binding directives and self-determination (Gergel & Owen, 2015) - sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252715000680
The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment - hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment
Embodied Akrasia: James On Motivation And Weakness Of Will - jstor.org/stable/26493690
Discourse on the Passions (Hume) - davidhume.org/texts/p/full
Weakness of Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weakness-will/
