The Addict in Us all

The Addict in Us all

In this paper, we contend that the psychology of addiction is similar to the psychology of ordinary, non-addictive temptation in important respects, and explore the ways in which these parallels can illuminate both addiction and ordinary action. The incentive salience account of addiction proposed by Robinson and Berridge (1-3) entails that addictive desires are not in their nature different fr...

The Addict in the Street

to our knowledge of the drug-taking teenagers, is disappointing for the British scene. The introduction by Jeremy Larner is excellent. However, the edited versions of tape-recordings by drug addicts is repetitive and lacks both direction and emphasis, although it was interesting to peruse the stories of two addicted brothers and an interview with an addict's mother. One imagines that this formu...

The Genius in All of Us (2011)

Lamarck called it “the inheritance of acquired characteristics”—the notion that an individual’s actions can alter the biological inheritance passed on to his or her children. For example, giraffes, according to Lamarck’s theory, had developed longer and longer necks over the generations because of the giraffe's practice of reaching higher and higher for food. The giraffe is... obliged to browse...

All of us.

The elegant law that governs us all.

A dog owner weighs twice as much as her German shepherd. Does she eat twice as much? Does a big city need twice as many gas stations as one that is half its size? Our first instinct is to say yes. But, alas, we are wrong. On a per-gram basis, a human requires about 25% less food than her dog, and the larger city needs only 85% more gas stations. If we double the population of a city, we also ne...