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Evolutionary psychology and functionally empty metaphors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Don Ross  and
David Spurrett
Don Ross*
Affiliation:
Departments of Philosophy and Economics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL35294-1260http://www.uab.edu/philosophy/ross.html School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch7701, South Africa
David Spurrett*
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban, 4041, South Africahttp://www.ukzn.ac.za/undphil/spurrett/
*
dross@commerce.uct.ac.za
spurrett@ukzn.ac.za
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Abstract

Lea & Webley's (L&W's) non-exclusive distinction between tool-like and drug-like motivators is insufficiently discriminating to say much about money that is useful, as the distinction's equivocal application to sex, food, and drugs shows. Further, it appears as though the motivations of problem gamblers are non-metaphorically like those of drug addicts.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 192 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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