Self-binding

The opposite mechanism, that of case C in Fig. 11.1, can also operate. Sometimes the opportunity set is deliberately shaped by a person s desires. I do not have in mind here the practically important but theoretically trivial desire to expand one s opportunity set, but the more puzzling cases in which people find it in their interest to reduce the set of options available to them. 1 shall discuss two reasons people might engage in such selflimiting or self-binding behavior. 

Cellulose Gel occurs as a fine, white or almost white powder. It is purified, partially depolymerized cellulose prepared by treating a// /za-ccllulose, obtained as a pulp from fibrous plant material, with mineral acids. It consists of free-flowing, nonfi-brous particles that may be compressed into self-binding tablets that disintegrate rapidly in water. It is insoluble in water, in dilute acids, in dilute sodium hydroxide solutions, and in most organic solvents. 

A good discussion of this issue is in Fri)da (1986, pp. 475-9). Elsewhere (Elster in press a, section I.5) I consider a view not discussed by Frijda, namely that emotions are useful self-binding devices In strategic Interaction. 

Use First stage of urea formaldehyde resins impregnating wood to increase hardness and fire resistance and to form self-binding laminations for plywood manufacture permanent-press fabrics. 

MacKenzie, R., Newman, D., Burger, M.M., Roy, R., Kuhns, W. J. Adhesion of a viral envelope protein to a non-self-binding domain... 

This double manoeuvre of self-asserting and self-binding acquires further significance in the context of world politics between the two world wars. As colonised countries began their long and difficult journeys to independence, as dominant nations collided more violently with each other in contests of strength, as travel and communication technologies advanced with... 

The oxidation number of the oxygen atom is -2 in all of its compounds (except peroxides, such as H2O2, where it is - 1, and in the elementary and self-binding forms of oxygen, where it is zero). 

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