Self-regulation without force: Can awareness leverage reward to drive behavior change?

VU Ludwig, KW Brown… - … on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
To reach longer-term goals and live aligned with their values, people typically must regulate
their behavior. Effortful self-control is one way to achieve this and is usually framed as a …

The willpower paradox: possible and impossible conceptions of self-control

T Goschke, V Job - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Machine Learning and Brain Imaging for Psychiatric Disorders: New Perspectives

I Brossollet, Q Gallet, P Favre, J Houenou - Machine Learning for Brain …, 2023 - Springer
Psychiatric disorders include a broad panel of heterogeneous conditions. Among the most
severe psychiatric diseases, in intensity and incidence, depression will affect 15–20% of the …

Predicting real-life self-control from brain activity encoding the value of anticipated future outcomes

KM Krönke, M Wolff, H Mohr, A Kräplin… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Deficient self-control leads to shortsighted decisions and incurs severe personal and
societal costs. Although neuroimaging has advanced our understanding of neural …

Impaired regulation of both addiction-related and primary rewards in individuals with internet gaming disorder

L Wu, L Zhu, X Shi, N Zhou, R Wang, G Liu, K Song… - Psychiatry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Poor executive function (EF) has been implicated in addictions. Among “hot” EFs (ie, those
involving motivations and emotions), poor regulation of craving has been proposed to …

Healthy cravings? Impact of imagined healthy food consumption on craving for healthy foods and motivation to eat healthily-Results of an initial experimental study

J Werthmann, B Tuschen-Caffier, L Ströbele, SL Kübel… - Appetite, 2023 - Elsevier
Craving for high-calorie foods predicts consumption of high-calorie foods thereby
contributing to unhealthy eating habits and, potentially in the long term, to the development …

[HTML][HTML] Self-control and interoception: Linking the neural substrates of craving regulation and the prediction of aversive interoceptive states induced by inspiratory …

H Walter, A Kausch, L Dorfschmidt, L Waller… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Following the interoceptive inference framework, we set out to replicate our previously
reported association of self-control and interoceptive prediction and strived to investigate the …

Focusing on future consequences enhances self-controlled dietary choices

J Kruse, FM Korb, C Surrey, U Wolfensteller, T Goschke… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Self-controlled dietary decisions, ie, choosing a healthier food over a tastier one, are a major
challenge for many people. Despite the potential profound consequences of frequent poor …

Self-control is linked to interoceptive inference: Craving regulation and the prediction of aversive interoceptive states induced with inspiratory breathing load

JD Kruschwitz, A Kausch, A Brovkin, A Keshmirian… - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
The interoceptive inference framework suggests that our brain continuously anticipates
future states of our body and aims to avoid events that might counteract homeostasis by …

Real-life self-control is predicted by parietal activity during preference decision making: A brain decoding analysis

KM Krönke, H Mohr, M Wolff, A Kräplin… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2021 - Springer
Despite its relevance for health and education, the neurocognitive mechanism of real-life
self-control is largely unknown. While recent research revealed a prominent role of the …