Category: Thesis Issues

Addicting Hab’ ITs

Addicting Hab’ ITs

When it concerns IT use, habits refer to behaviors ceasing to be guided by intentions and becoming habitual (Limayem and Hirt, 2003) (Kim and Malhotra, 2005). Goal-directed behaviors differ from intentions in terms of appreciation and consciousness of decision (Ahuja and Thatcher, 2005). Indeed as primary reasons induce action in the concept of intention, goal-directed-behavior [...]

Passion over Reason

Passion over Reason

  Prior philosophers and researchers emphasized the dynamics of reason and passion for understanding action.  Pascal, in 1670, exposed the contradiction between passion and reason  (Genet, 1983) (Pascal, 2007) (Cottingham, 1998). Differently, Descartes, in 1649, postulated on the supremacy of reason over passion (Descartes, 1989) (Cottingham, 1998). Hume, in 1739, advocates a theory in which [...]