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How to beat smoking, other bad habits with better self-control
CNN: Ready to kick your bad habit once and for all? Even if you’re not completely committed yet, there’s a technique that may unconsciously help, whether you’re intending to quit smoking, binge eating, gambling or
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Portrait of Self-Control as a Young Process
A panel of regulation experts explains how the capacity develops from infancy through adolescence.
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Beyond Simple Models of Self-Control
The adolescent brain is more “plastic” than it will ever be again and capable of remarkable adaptability in light of the many challenges that this developmental phase brings. Yet it is a peak time for
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Self-Control Strategies for School-Age Children
What strategies can children use to facilitate self-control? First, they can choose their physical or social circumstances or change them to their advantage. Next, they can selectively attend to particular features of their situations or
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Young Children’s Self-Control and the Health and Wealth of Their Nation
Longitudinal data collected from thousands of participants from New Zealand and the United Kingdom show that childhood measures of self-discipline predict everything from personal income to the pace of physiological aging in adulthood, APS Fellow
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The Paradox of Effort
The Atlantic: Denying instant gratification in deference to long-term goals is virtuous, people tell me. Those people might be right. Psychologists call it self-regulation or self-control. And together with conscientiousness, it’s at least a trait