As if to support some of my points in my previous post, check this link: http://gnn.tv/videos/viewer.php?id=36&n=1
Taken from http://www.gnn.tv/ -----Original Message----- From: David Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:03 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: I like my TV time! On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Marie Helweg-Larsen went: > But it is necessary to use the addiction model? I don't think we > want students thinking that everything is addictive or that you're > either addicted and admit it or you're addicted and deny it (I'm not > suggesting that is what you teach your students; I think many > already believe that). Isn't it possible just to watch tv and enjoy > it (without further qualifications)? I think an addiction model is implicit in the behavior of those who decide that they can't have a TV in their home because they'll watch it to excess. That sounds like an extension of the AA slogan "one drink, one drunk." It may well be true for some people (in terms of drinking or TV watching), but that doesn't make it so for everyone. What I'm proposing is an alternative to that sort of all-or-nothing thinking--a model that holds that an "abusable" thing can be also be used moderately and responsibly by most people if the contingencies and situations are set up correctly (thanks, Marc). By the way, I'm completely agnostic on the extent to which substance addictions share biological substrates with other excessive behaviors. But the behaviors themselves often seem to respond to the same kinds of manipulations. --David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang= english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
