What do patients want to know: An empirical approach to explanation generation and validation

What we want to do versus what we think

What we want to do versus what we think we should do: an empirical investigation of intrapersonal conflict

✍ Kathleen M. O'Connor; Carsten K. W. De Dreu; Holly Schroth; Bruce Barry; Terri R 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 133 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract People often feel torn between what they want to do and what they believe they should do. As a result, they experience __intrapersonal conflict__. For example, people know that they should avoid credit card debt, but they want to splurge on just one more purchase. Following Loewenstein'