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Money, play, and instincts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Gordon M. Burghardt
Gordon M. Burghardt*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN37996-0900http://web.utk.edu/~gburghar/
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gburghar@utk.edu
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Abstract

The metaphor drug model of money slights the possibility that money may literally tap into and exploit brain systems underlying motivational systems, and it also ignores growing evidence on the common neural substrates of behavioral and “physiological” addictions. Additionally, many objects other than money can gain such drug-like properties. The treatment of play in the evolutionary explanation for the unique role of money in people ignores key conceptual and empirical issues.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 182 - 183
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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