Compulsion and impulsivity are both primary features of drug addiction. Based on decades of animal research, we have a detailed understanding of the factors (both environmental and physiological) that influence compulsive drug use, but still know relatively little about the impulsive aspects of drug addiction. This review outlines our current knowledge of the relationship between impulsivity an...

In the United Kingdom, government proposals for the introduction of an identity (ID) card have raised considerable privacy concerns. In the present research, opinions and attitudes about different ways of implementing ID cards are examined using an experimental methodology. Specifically, the level and type of compulsion and application process, and the use of a centralised database or trusted t...

Experimental philosophers have recently begun to investigate the folk conception of weakness of will (e.g., Mele 2010; May and Holton 2012; Beebe forthcoming; Sousa and Mauro forthcoming). Their work has focused primarily on the ways in which akrasia (i.e., acting contrary to one’s better judgment), unreasonable violations of resolutions, and variations in the moral valence of actions modulate ...

Objective: The aim of this study is to explain the relationship between life satisfaction and cyberchondria during pandemic period. Method: Sociodemographic information form, Cyberchondria Severity Scale Life Satisfaction were used as data collection tools. Within scope research, 416 participants reached. Structural equation modeling, Mann-Whitney U Test, Kruskal-Wallis H Test Miller Method in ...