Purpose The goal of this meta-analysis was to aggregate available empirical studies on the
effects of physical exercise on executive functions in preadolescent children (6–12 years of …

In the 1960s, Mischel and colleagues developed a simple 'marshmallow test'to measure
preschoolers' ability to delay gratification. In numerous follow-up studies over 40 years, this …

Researchers often study constructs that are conceptually and/or empirically related, but
distinct (ie,“sibling constructs”). In social-personality psychology, as well as psychology more …

Inhibition is often conceptualized as a unitary construct reflecting the ability to ignore and
suppress irrelevant information. At the same time, it has been subdivided into inhibition of …

Aging has been assumed to go along with deficient inhibitory processes in cognitive
performance. According to this inhibition deficit hypothesis, older adults are less able to …

There is extraordinary diversity in how the construct of self-control is operationalized in
research studies. We meta-analytically examined evidence of convergent validity among …

This study used data from 220 adults to examine the relations among 3 inhibition-related
functions. Confirmatory factor analysis suggested that Prepotent Response Inhibition and …

Response inhibition is an important act of control in many domains of psychology and
neuroscience. It is often studied in a stop-signal task that requires subjects to inhibit an …

Disinhibition is a common focus in psychopathology research. However, use of inhibition-
models often is piecemeal, lacking an overarching taxonomy of inhibitory processes. The …

A load theory of attention in which distractor rejection depends on the level and type of load
involved in current processing was tested. A series of experiments demonstrates that …