Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

Addiction, procrastination, and failure points in decision-making systems

Chrisoula Andreoua1

a1 Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. c.andreou@utah.edu http://www.hum.utah.edu/philosophy/?module=facultyDetails&personId=137&orgId=300

Abstract

Redish et al. suggest that their failures-in-decision-making framework for understanding addiction can also contribute to improving our understanding of a variety of psychiatric disorders. In the spirit of reflecting on the significance and scope of their research, I briefly develop the idea that their framework can also contribute to improving our understanding of the pervasive problem of procrastination.

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