Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will

New York, US: Oup Usa (2012)
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People backslide. They freely do things they believe it would be best on the whole not to do. Mele draws on work in social and developmental psychology and in psychiatry to motivate a view of human behavior in which both backsliding and overcoming the temptation to backslide are explicable

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Alfred Mele
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