Will Power: Muscle or Fund?
- Posted by Andrew Bailey on Monday, October 03, 2005 at 7:46 AM
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CSU Northridge economist Glen Whitman draws attention to some implications of the metaphor one adopts for understanding the psychology of will power. The alternatives: will power as a muscle, or will power as a fund. An interesting post.
1 Comments:
Kay at 2:12 PM said... I like it, in general. But doesn't it seem like sheer common-sense to take the wp-as-muscle view? Hm. I've never heard the fund view before at all (except from 7-year-olds who wanted to excuse bad behaviour, and it wasn't too convincing coming from them).
