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Addiction, Self‐Signalling and the Deep Self
Author(s) -
Holton Richard
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12107
Subject(s) - signalling , nothing , addiction , psychology , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , social psychology , neuroscience , epistemology , philosophy , economics , microeconomics
Addicts may simply deny that they are addicted; or they may use self‐signalling to try to provide evidence that giving up is not worthwhile. I provide an account that shows how easy it is to provide apparent evidence either that the addiction is so bad that it cannot be escaped; or that there is no real addiction, and hence nothing to escape. I suggest that the most effective way of avoiding this is to avoid self‐signalling altogether.