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Behavioral momentum and behavioral economic metaphors for excessive consumption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Rudy E. Vuchinich
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 vuchire@mail.auburn.edu
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Abstract

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Metaphors “highlight and hide” different aspects of phenomena. A behavioral economic metaphor for excessive consumption highlights the contextual features of behavioral-environment relations. Can the behavioral momentum metaphor generate a representation of context that is at least as useful as that generated by behavioral economics? Maybe, maybe not; or maybe a mixed metaphor will do a better job than either alone.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press