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On the coexistence of cognitivism and intertemporal bargaining

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Keith E. Stanovich*
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6, Canadahttp://tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca/~kstanovich/index.html

Abstract

Although Ainslie rejects cognitivism as providing an explanation of willpower, a type of nonhomuncular cognitivism is hiding in his own proposal. The key mental mechanism of aggregating individual decisions (bundled reframings) involves representation and decoupling operations encompassed within the analytic system of dual-process mental architectures.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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