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Addiction as Consumer Choice: Exploring the Cognitive Dimension

Addiction as Consumer Choice: Exploring the Cognitive Dimension

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Marketing

Investing & FinanceAddiction & RecoveryCognition

ISBN10: 0415703204
ISBN13: 9780415703208
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 15 2016
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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?

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