Resolve is always effortful
Date issued
April 26, 2021
In
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
No
44
From page
39
To page
40
Reviewed by peer
1
Subjects
Motivation and Will
Cognitive Psychology
Rationality
Cognitive ScienceHabits
Abstract
Ainslie argues there are two main kinds of willpower: suppression, which is necessarily effortful, and resolve, which is not. We agree with the distinction but argue that all resolve is effortful. Alleged cases of effortless resolve are indeed cases of what Ainslie calls habits, namely stable results of prior uses of resolve.
Later version
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/willpower-with-and-without-effort/43E3A93EA7C13D9A0683B712D16AE1B7
Publication type
journal article
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