Do addicts have free will? An empirical approach to a vexing question
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Do addicts have free will? An empirical approach to a vexing question
Introduction This paper addresses two overlapping questions: Do addicts have the capacity to voluntarily quit drugs? And do individuals knowingly pursue courses of action that they realize are bad for them, such as excessive drug use? Methods I propose two testable versions of free will. First, the observation that activities differ in the degree to which they are susceptible to the influence...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addictive Behaviors Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2352-8532
DOI: 10.1016/j.abrep.2017.02.001