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Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the Paradox of Self-Defeat - Hardcover

Berglas, Steven; Baumeister, Roy

 
9780465076802: Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the Paradox of Self-Defeat

Synopsis

Most people would agree that a basic human goal is to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Yet people constantly seem to sabotage that very goal. This is a probing look at what lies beneath our surprising inclination to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.

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