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Hoarding behavior: A better evolutionary account of money psychology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Paul Bouissac
Paul Bouissac*
Affiliation:
Department of French Linguistics, University of Toronto, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1K7, Canadahttp://www.semioticon.com/bouissac.htm
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Abstract

The target article authors have been drawn into two metaphoric models of attitudes toward money that have prevented them from developing a convincing evolutionary theory able to account for the various behaviors they list and categorize as either tool-type or drug-type. Instead, hoarding could provide an evolutionary model that is better supported by behavioral and neurological evidence and could account for the whole range of behaviors they review. Moreover, the authors' focus on money as the common denominator of these behaviors brings an ideological bias to their inquiry.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 181 - 182
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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