Self-regulation is a core aspect of human functioning that helps facilitate the successful
pursuit of personal goals. There has been a proliferation of theories and models describing …

Coordinated interactions between the central and autonomic nervous systems are crucial for
survival due to the inherent propensity for human behavior to make errors. In our ever …

Influential theories in psychology, neuroscience, and economics assume that the exertion of
mental effort should feel aversive. Yet, this assumption is usually untested, and it is …

Positive affect can help to dampen the impact of adverse life events, facilitating healthy
cognitive and emotional functioning after stress. The present review highlights recent …

People regularly encounter various types of conflict. Here, we ask if, and, if so, how, different
types of conflict, from lab-based Stroop conflicts to everyday-life self-control or moral …

This article presents a quasi‐experiment (N= 79 university students) testing whether
individual differences in action‐state orientation moderate primed cognitive conflict's effects …

The notion that humans avoid effortful action is one of the oldest and most persistent in
psychology. Influential theories of effort propose that effort valuations are made according to …

The present study tested how students emotionally react to and deal with goal failure. We (1)
examined students' achievement emotions after they failed to achieve their learning goal …

Clinical studies of adaptive control emphasize the role disruptions in control play in
psychopathology. However, many studies used confound‐laden designs and examined only …

Sense of agency is the feeling of being in control of one's actions and their perceivable
effects. Most previous research identified cognitive or sensory determinants of agency …