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Editorial: Habits: plasticity, learning and freedom

" During much of our waking lives, we act according to our habits, from the time we rise and go through our morning routines until we fall asleep after evening routines. Taken in this way, habits have long attracted the interest of philosophers and psychologists, and they have been alternatively praised and cursed. " This is a passage extracted from a highly cited article by Ann Graybiel, one o...

On editorial freedom: implications of the JAMA affair.

As this edition was going to press, the news broke that the executive vice president of the American Medical Association (AMA), E RatcliVe Anderson, had sacked George Lundberg, who had edited the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) for 17 years. Because we see this as of great importance for public health, we have taken the unusual decision to publish a joint editorial that will ...

Editorial: Who Is Afraid to Give Freedom of Speech to Marketing Folks?

D the invaluable contribution of marketing folks (e.g., making markets work), they fail to enjoy the same freedom of speech as others. This fact is particularly egregious because unlike other groups that can use threats, force, or coercion, marketing folks rely only on speech. Although the U.S. Constitution never mentions commercial speech, the courts invented the concept to censor marketing fo...

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