One factor to consider is that drinking alcohol causes pleasure, and pleasure is the motivation in motivated cognition.
Most comments on the internet are against any laws or technical measures that would prevent internet users from downloading for free copies of music and video files. I think the same thing is going on there: listening to music—music new to the listener particularly—causes pleasure, and that pleasure acts as motivation to reject plans and ways of framing things that would lead to less listening to novel music in the future.
huh, interesting. I wonder where the hell the common story came from.
One factor to consider is that drinking alcohol causes pleasure, and pleasure is the motivation in motivated cognition.
Most comments on the internet are against any laws or technical measures that would prevent internet users from downloading for free copies of music and video files. I think the same thing is going on there: listening to music—music new to the listener particularly—causes pleasure, and that pleasure acts as motivation to reject plans and ways of framing things that would lead to less listening to novel music in the future.