ABSTRACT
From time to time we find ourselves doing things that we never actually intended to do. For example, although one makes a firm decision to avoid unnecessary calories, one may find oneself unable to resist “spontaneously” taking a piece of a delicious cheesecake. Is it possible and reasonable to suggest that something similar may take place in the context of doping behavior? From a more general psychological viewpoint there sometimes seem to be two forces at work, one that is very immediate and more or less uncontrollable and another that is more considered, i.e., based on reasoned thinking and a – possibly subjective – idea of what is rational. This distinction is at the core of psychological dual process approaches. At its most general, dual process theories assume that motivated behavior is rooted in two different kinds of thinking.
