... Willpower Trait self-control is the capacity to override impulses, resist temptations, and overturn dominant responses, to advance long-term over short-term goals, and to develop efficient, automatic processes that promote goal achievement [ 1–3 ]. Evidence indicates that self-control is stable over time...

... was 52 years. Table  2 shows the differences in the PBHE reported and the proportion of the control variables for men and women. Twenty-one percent of men report consuming more than the recommended 400 g of F&V per day compared to 25% of women (P = <0.001). A lack of willpower...

...This essay aims to understand how it might be rational to follow through with a prior resolution in the face of anticipated temptation that comes in the form of a shift in evaluative assessment. In order to explain this possibility of rational willpower, it appeals to a kind of practical...

... responsiveness out in the open condition persistence interdependence judgment shift Holton one glass policy one drink intention case regret anticipated future snowball effect Etchemendy willpower end to have an Rabinowicz Wlodek Sobel Jordan Howard coherence of intention Kelly Thomas psychic...

...This chapter extends the accounts of valuing and of agential authority to puzzles about rational willpower in the face of temptation. It explores two approaches, one that focuses on the agential authority of certain policies of action, and one that focuses on the reasonable stability...

... theories of normative reasons for action—objectivism and subjectivism—can be reconciled. The chapter responds to the most serious objections to this view, including that it cannot account for temptation and willpower, or for the existence and appropriateness of the reactive attitudes. desires Schoeder...

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... stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation. The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues...

... appetites liking wanting and wanting liking and Burroughs W S control brain prefrontal cortex willpower compulsion addiction and addiction definition mental illness disease appetite wanting liking control willpower harm Clinicians debate whether addiction is a disease ( Heyman 2009...

.... Innovative readings of Braddon’s and Collins’s sensation novels – some of them canonical, others less well-known – demonstrate how they reflect, employ, and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, willpower, inherent constitution, education, insanity, upbringing and social circumstance. Far...

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...-regulation strategies self-control willpower behavior change interventions 247 It is Friday afternoon. On Monday, you must give an important presentation. Even though you are highly motivated to do an excellent job (i.e., desirability and feasibility are high), you did not find the time to prepare during...

...0 21 02 2025 This chapter argues that the virtues of willpower (courage, self-control, patience, perseverance, etc.) put the self in possession of itself, and, since to be a self is (in part) to be in possession of oneself, are important in the very constitution of the self. The virtues...

.... The chapter addresses the centrality of cingulate cortex both to willpower and cybernetic error minimization and argues that many of the goal-directed cybernetic processes governing animal volition and behavior concern optimization of paths toward the fulfillment of goals, from physical desires to emotional...

... of the broader context, the meaning of self, willpower, mentality, and also of morality, institutions, culture, values, and norms, change. Multidisciplinary economists make cost/benefit analyses, which differ significantly from the traditional economic analysis. Main phenomena such as discrimination, inequality...

...Chapter 8 explains how we exercise willpower: by intentionally redirecting attention away from vividly represented temptation and towards less vividly represented goals. Redirecting attention raises the vividness of goals, amplifying our desire to attain them. Exercising willpower requires effort...

... It Work? Part I of this collection explores conceptual and empirical questions about the nature of self- control and how self-c ontrol functions. Questions featured here include the following. How is self- control related to willpower? Is willpower a resource that can be depleted? What are the cultural...

... of current theory and research on addiction with parallels to philosophical accounts of akrasia: (1) behavioral economic theories; (2) dual-process cognitive theory; (3) “willpower” and ego depletion; and (4) neuroscientific research on deficits to self-regulation. Finding ways these lines of enquiry can...

... has lost the power to choose as he wants. Often, when an abstinent addict relapses, the relapse is preceded by a cognitive dysfunction that selectively disables his willpower in relation to his substance. These modes of disempowerment in choice making are correctly explained by a specific disease...

... strength of character and willpower, which can serve as alternatives to the coping strategies offered elsewhere in the literature. Ainslie George procrastination Stroud Sarah will Anderson Joel Brennan Timothy J Cooter Robert D Heath Joseph Kim Jeong Yoon Ross Don Ryle Gilbert Akerlof George...