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Evolutionary psychology and functionally empty metaphors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Don Ross  and
David Spurrett
Don Ross*
Affiliation:
Departments of Philosophy and Economics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260 http://www.uab.edu/philosophy/ross.html School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
David Spurrett*
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban, 4041, South Africa http://www.ukzn.ac.za/undphil/spurrett/
*
dross@commerce.uct.ac.za
spurrett@ukzn.ac.za
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Abstract

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Lea & Webley's (L&W's) non-exclusive distinction between tool-like and drug-like motivators is insufficiently discriminating to say much about money that is useful, as the distinction's equivocal application to sex, food, and drugs shows. Further, it appears as though the motivations of problem gamblers are non-metaphorically like those of drug addicts.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 192 - 193
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006