Ainslie: Picoeconomics

Gordon R. Foxall

Chapter Chapter 9 in Explaining Consumer Choice, 2007, pp 149-163 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Just as I argued earlier that the distinction between extensional behavioral science and intentional behaviorism was one of complements rather than rivals, so I would now like to suggest that the distinction between teleological behaviorism and picoeconomics lies in the various functions they fulfill rather than in their competing for the same explanatory ground. For, if I have placed teleological behaviorism in the region of intentional behaviorism and super-personal cognitive psychology, I should propose that picoeconomics comes closest to the rounded cognitive psychology that embraces both the sub-personal and super-personal in addition to the personal level where cognition occurs.

Keywords: Conditioned Place Preference; Hyperbolic Discount; Mesolimbic Dopamine System; Intentional Behaviorism; Exponential Discount (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230599796_9

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