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TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM AND THE PROBLEM OF SELF-CONTROL TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM AND THE PROBLEM OF SELF-CONTROL
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THE SELF-CONTROL CONFLICT THE SELF-CONTROL CONFLICT
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TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM
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THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-CONTROL THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-CONTROL
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TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM AND ECONOMICS TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM AND ECONOMICS
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IMPLICATIONS OF TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM FOR TREATMENT OF ADDICTION AND EVERYDAY PROBLEMS OF SELF-CONTROL IMPLICATIONS OF TELEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM FOR TREATMENT OF ADDICTION AND EVERYDAY PROBLEMS OF SELF-CONTROL
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CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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NOTES NOTES
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REFERENCES REFERENCES
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CHAPTER 27 Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self-Control
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Published:March 2010
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Problems of self-control as well as social cooperation may be seen as conflicts not between internal spiritual or neurological entities, but between highly valued overt behavioral patterns of differing temporal extents or social distances. For example, an alcoholic must choose between having a drink now—valuable in the short run—and being healthy, performing well at work, maintaining satisfying social relationships, etc. —valuable in the long run. The essential question addressed in this chapter is how the latter may come to dominate the former within a person's lifetime. A behavioral evolutionary process is proposed by which valuable temporally or socially extended behavior patterns evolve over an individual lifetime from simpler, shorter patterns. It is argued that complex patterns, such as social cooperation over long periods, arise from simpler patterns in behavioral evolution analogously to the way complex structures, such as the human eye, arise from simpler structures in biological evolution. The idea that complex, long-term behavioral patterns in conflict with short-term patterns, if they are not inherited in toto, must be generated by an internal and autonomous spiritual, neurological, or cognitive process is compared to creationism in biological evolution. The role of delay and social discount functions in measuring the extent of coherent behavioral patterns is explicated. Finally, the chapter examines several implications of teleological behaviorism for practical behavioral control.
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