Evolutionary psychology and functionally empty metaphors

Don Ross; David Spurrett

doi:10.1017/S0140525X0641904X

Evolutionary psychology and functionally empty metaphors

Don Ross
, David Spurrett

Department of Philosophy
University of Cape Town
University of KwaZulu-Natal

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	192-193
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	29
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0641904X
Publication status	Published - Apr 2006
Externally published	Yes

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