Urgency

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 52 (4):399 – 411 (2009)
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Abstract

It is generally recognized that emotional states induce impatience, in the sense of a heightened preference for early rewards over later rewards. In this article I argue that they also induce urgency, in the sense of a preference for early action over later action. I adduce scattered evidence for the existence of the phenomenon and sketch a possible experiment that might demonstrate it, while also noting that it may be hard to distinguish urgency-based action from action based on the anticipation of the decay of emotion

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