Self-Control

TL;DR: This work introduces a three-stage model that elucidates the bottom-up factors that cause individuals to engage Type 2 processing and argues that considering the potential stages of reasoning allows us to distinguish early (conflict detection) and late (decoupling) sources of analytic thought.

TL;DR: Given that many of people's habits in daily life are congruent with their goals, habits can improve goal adherence when self-control is low and depletion should boost the performance of both desirable and undesirable habits.

TL;DR: It is suggested that recognizing the tempting value of attractive stimuli in the authors' living environment requires cognitive resources, which has the important implication that, contrary to traditional views, performing a concurrent demanding task may actually diminish the captivating power of temptation and thus facilitate self-regulation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether a conceptual distinction between two components of self-control (inhibitory and initiatory selfcontrol) is empirically valid, and they employed a series of confirmative factor analyses in two samples (total N = 577) to provide support for a distinction between inhibitory and initiation self control, and examined the predictive validity of the two components by regression analyses with (un)desired health/academic behavior as dependent variables.

TL;DR: The nature of this type of future-oriented self-control and the psychological processes that underlie it are analyzed and the particular types of preschool delay situations diagnostic for predicting aspects of cognitive and social competence later in life are specified.

TL;DR: A 2-system framework is proposed for understanding the processes that enable--and undermine--self-control or "willpower" as exemplified in the delay of gratification paradigm, and a cool, cognitive "know" system and a hot, emotional "go" system are postulated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Strotz model is recast to include the control features missing in his formulation, and the authors relate the individual's control problems with those that exist in agency relationships.

TL;DR: Gollwitzer et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the theoretical distinction between goal intentions and implementation intentions by assessing the completion rate of various goal projects and found that difficult goal intentions were completed about 3 times more often when participants had furnished them with implementation intentions.