ReviewCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2019
After-effects of self-control: The reward responsivity hypothesis.
Review in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Physical Activity and Self-Reported Academic Achievement Among Rural Left-Behind Children: The Serial Mediating Roles of Character Strengths and Self-Control.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Automated Facial Emotion Recognition System Detects Altered Emotional Processing During Craving Induction in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Exercising self-control increases responsivity to hedonic and eudaimonic rewards.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sensation seeking and risk adjustment: the role of reward sensitivity in dynamic risky decisions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cognitive effort increases the intensity of rewards.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- The Role of Motivation Systems, Anxiety, and Low Self-Control in Smartphone Addiction among Smartphone-Based Social Networking Service (SNS) Users.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Envy and Environmental Decision Making: The Mediating Role of Self-Control.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Emotion Regulation, Effort and Fatigue: Complex Issues Worth Investigating.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Detours increase local knowledge-Exploring the hidden benefits of self-control failure.PloS one · 2021Article
- The influence of stress and early life adversity on addiction: Psychobiological mechanisms of risk and resilience.International review of neurobiology · 2020Review
- Reward systems, cognition, and emotion: Introduction to the special issue.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Exercising self-control can be phenomenologically aversive. Insofar as individuals strive to maintain a positive emotional state, one consequence of exercising self-control may thus be a temporarily tuning toward or amplification of reward-related impulses (perhaps arising to countermand the aversive feelings that stem from self-control). Reward-relevant after-effects are relatively underappreciated in self-control research. In the current paper, we review theory and research pertaining to the idea that exercising self-control increases reward responsivity. First, we review theoretical models of self-control focusing on the relationship between control systems and reward systems. Second, we review behavioral studies regarding the effects of exercising self-control on subsequent reactivity to food, money, drugs, and positive emotional images. Third, we review findings from functional neuroimaging and electroencephalographic research pertaining to the reward responsivity hypothesis. We then call for additional research to integrate how, when, and under what circumstances self-control exertion influences reward processing. Such an endeavor will help to advance research and theory on self-control by offering a more precise characterization of the dynamic interactions between control systems and reward systems.
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