ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2023
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control.
Article in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Seeing Conflict: Identifying Self-Control Conflict Attenuates Early Allocation of Visual Attention to Positive Stimuli.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026Article
- Bridging the intention-behavior gap in physical activity among pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study of self-control strategy use and dynamics.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Article
- Short video addiction is associated with students' academic disengagement: a moderated mediation analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The association between the error-related negativity and self-control is moderated by impulsivity and compulsivity.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Mechanism of the effectiveness of mindfulness on intrinsic capacity in elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases: a dual-pathway emotion regulation framework.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
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- Salience network resting-state functional connectivity predicts self-controlled decision-making.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025Review
- Do teacher-training college students become more engaged in their studies because of commitment? The mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of core self-evaluation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The power of cultural habits: The role of effortless control in delaying gratification.Current opinion in psychology · 2024Review
- No evidence for a reciprocal relationship between daily self-control failures and addictive behavior in a longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The role of anticipated emotions in self-control: linking self-control and the anticipatory ability to engage emotions associated with upcoming events.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Self-control denotes the ability to override current desires to render behavior consistent with long-term goals. A key assumption is that self-control is required when short-term desires are transiently stronger (more preferred) than long-term goals and people would yield to temptation without exerting self-control. We argue that this widely shared conception of self-control raises a fundamental yet rarely discussed conceptual paradox: How is it possible that a person most strongly desires to perform a behavior (e.g., eat chocolate) and
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