Evolutionary psychology and functionally empty metaphors

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)192-193
Number of pages2
JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume29
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2006
Externally publishedYes

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