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 …

Parasocial interaction, or the one-sided relationships individuals form with characters from
television and other media can have negative and positive outcomes. By noting the positive …

Drawing on resource drain theory, we introduce self-regulatory resource (ego) depletion
stemming from family–work conflict (FWC) as an alternative theoretical perspective on why …

Given that countless studies have documented the wide-ranging benefits of self-regulation,
determining if and how self-regulation can be improved is an important scientific and …

Can immediate (vs. delayed) rewards increase intrinsic motivation? Prior research
compared the presence versus absence of rewards. By contrast, this research compared …

The resource model of self‐control casts self‐control as a capacity that relies on some
limited resource that exhausts with use. The model captured our imagination and brought …

Many psychological theories suggest a link between self-regulation and identity, but, until
now, a mechanistic account that suggests ways to improve self-regulation has not been put …

This chapter discusses the motivational and attendant attentional processes that underlie
the extent to which a person uses self-control. It describes how self-control has typically …

Although the idea of human beings being primarily and inextricably social has strong
support in the psychological literature, an examination of how human beings actually …

Self-control is a burgeoning research topic within sport and motivational psychology.
Following efforts to define and contextualize self-control, characteristics of self-control are …