Articles Containing “Kathleen Vohs” — 98 result(s)

Every year the holidays put us grownups through the same wringer. Sometime late in December, we remember that the “holiday spirit” is really not about eager anticipation and indulgence; it is about controlling ourselves, resisting

Your Brain Thinks Money Is a Drug NPR, August 7, 2009 If you’ve ever thought of money as a drug, you may be more right than you know. New research shows that counting money —

Click here to view the 2012 Editorial Board Editor in Chief Robert V. Kail, Purdue University Deputy Editors Ralph Adolphs, California Institute of Technology Paula Pietromonaco, University of Massachusetts Associate Editors Henk Aarts, Universiteit Utrecht

An Absence of Free Will, A Tendency to Cheat The New York Times February 19, 2008 “A study suggests that when people are encouraged to believe their behavior is predetermined — by genes or by

The ‘No’ Muscle: How To Bulk Up Your Self-Control Boston Sunday Globe December 16, 2007 “If self-control can tire like a muscle, then one intriguing corollary is that it can also be built up like