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Thinking Abstractly May Help to Boost Self-Control
Many of the long term goals people strive for -- like losing weight -- require us to use self-control and forgo immediate gratification. And yet denying our immediate desires in order to reap future benefits is often very hard for us to do. A new article in the August issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science explores the possibility that the way people subjectively understand, or construe, events can influence self-control. ... More>
