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ArticlePsychological inquiry2017

The perils of losing control: Why self-control is not just another value-based decision.

Amitai Shenhav

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Article in Psychological inquiry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Goal-Dependent Hippocampal Representations Facilitate Self-Control.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  2. The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023
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  3. Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2023
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  9. Resolving uncertainty in a social world.Nature human behaviour · 2019
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  10. Why has evolution not selected for perfect self-control?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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  11. Training in cognitive strategies reduces eating and improves food choice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Amitai ShenhavDepartment of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Funding

The neural basis of sequential control in human and non-human primatesP20GM103645 · NIGMS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI WORDEN, MICHAEL S · 2013 to 2022
$22.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103645
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID33776383
PMCPMC7993114

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