We review conceptual arguments and research on the role of asymmetric frontal cortical
activity in emotional and motivational processes. The current article organizes and reviews …

Self-control refers to the mental processes that allow people to override thoughts and
emotions, thus enabling behavior to vary adaptively from moment to moment. Dominating …

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

The strength model of self-regulation holds that self-regulation operates by consuming a
limited energy resource, thereby producing a state called ego depletion in which volition is …

The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …

According to the resource model of self-control, overriding one's predominant response
tendencies consumes and temporarily depletes a limited inner resource. Over 100 …

Inhibition is a major form of self-regulation. As such, it depends on self-awareness and
comparing oneself to standards and is also susceptible to fluctuations in willpower …

This article makes the critical role that the construct of energy plays in motivation research
and reviews six literatures related to human energy in a work context:(1) conservation of …

During the past two decades, self-control research has been dominated by the strength
model of self-control, which is built on the premise that the capacity for self-control is a …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 42 (9) of Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (see record 2016-40781 …