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  1. What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control.Juan Pablo Bermúdez, Samuel Murray, Louis Chartrand & Sergio Barbosa - 2023 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (1):33-55.
    Does self-control require willpower? The question cuts to the heart of a debate about whether self-control is identical with some psychological process internal to the agents or not. Noticeably absent from these debates is systematic evidence about the folk-psychological category of self-control. Here, we present the results of two behavioral studies (N = 296) that indicate the structure of everyday use of the concept. In Study 1, participants rated the degree to which different strategies to respond to motivational conflict exemplify (...)
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  • The skill of self-control.Juan Pablo Bermúdez - 2021 - Synthese 199 (3-4):6251-6273.
    Researchers often claim that self-control is a skill. It is also often stated that self-control exertions are intentional actions. However, no account has yet been proposed of the skillful agency that makes self-control exertion possible, so our understanding of self-control remains incomplete. Here I propose the skill model of self-control, which accounts for skillful agency by tackling the guidance problem: how can agents transform their abstract and coarse-grained intentions into the highly context-sensitive, fine-grained control processes required to select, revise and (...)
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  • The early development of executive function and its relation to social interaction: a brief review.Yusuke Moriguchi - 2014 - Frontiers in Psychology 5.
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  • Reasons for Comfort and Discomfort with Pharmacological Enhancement of Cognitive, Affective, and Social Domains.Laura Y. Cabrera, Nicholas S. Fitz & Peter B. Reiner - 2014 - Neuroethics 8 (2):93-106.
    The debate over the propriety of cognitive enhancement evokes both enthusiasm and worry. To gain further insight into the reasons that people may have for endorsing or eschewing pharmacological enhancement, we used empirical tools to explore public attitudes towards PE of twelve cognitive, affective, and social domains. Participants from Canada and the United States were recruited using Mechanical Turk and were randomly assigned to read one vignette that described an individual who uses a pill to enhance a single domain. After (...)
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  • Self-Control and Overcontrol: Conceptual, Ethical, and Ideological Issues in Positive Psychology.Michael Brownstein - 2018 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (3):585-606.
    In what they call their “manual of the sanities”—a positive psychology handbook describing contemporary research on strengths of character—Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman argue that “there is no true disadvantage of having too much self-control.” This claim is widely endorsed in the research literature. I argue that it is false. My argument proceeds in three parts. First, I identify conceptual confusion in the definition of self-control, specifically as it pertains to the claim that you cannot be too self-controlled. Second, I (...)
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  • Understanding Self-Control as a Whole vs. Part Dynamic.Kentaro Fujita, Jessica J. Carnevale & Yaacov Trope - 2016 - Neuroethics 11 (3):283-296.
    Although dual-process or divided-mind models of self-control dominate the literature, they suffer from empirical and conceptual challenges. We propose an alternative approach, suggesting that self-control can be characterized by a fragmented part versus integrated whole dynamic. Whereas responses to events derived from fragmented parts of the mind undermine self-control, responses to events derived from integrated wholes enhance self-control. We review empirical evidence from psychology and related disciplines that support this model. We, moreover, discuss the implications of this work for psychology, (...)
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  • Free Will, Black Swans and Addiction.Ted Fenton & Reinout W. Wiers - 2016 - Neuroethics 10 (1):157-165.
    The current dominant perspective on addiction as a brain disease has been challenged recently by Marc Lewis, who argued that the brain-changes related to addiction are similar to everyday changes of the brain. From this alternative perspective, addictions are bad habits that can be broken, provided that people are motivated to change. In that case, autonomous choice or “free will” can overcome bad influences from genes and or environments and brain-changes related to addiction. Even though we concur with Lewis that (...)
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  • Mindful movement and skilled attention.Dav Clark, Frank Schumann & Stewart H. Mostofsky - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
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  • Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood.Xin Zhao, Adrienne Wente, María Fernández Flecha, Denise Segovia Galvan, Alison Gopnik & Tamar Kushnir - 2021 - Cognition 210 (C):104609.
    We investigate individual, developmental, and cultural differences in self-control in relation to children's changing belief in “free will” – the possibility of acting against and inhibiting strong desires. In three studies, 4- to 8-year-olds in the U.S., China, Singapore, and Peru (N = 441) answered questions to gauge their belief in free will and completed a series of self-control and inhibitory control tasks. Children across all four cultures showed predictable age-related improvements in self-control, as well as changes in their free (...)
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  • Children's Self-Regulation and School Achievement in Cultural Contexts: The Role of Maternal Restrictive Control.Mirjam Weis, Gisela Trommsdorff & Lorena Muñoz - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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  • A Cluster Randomized-Controlled Trial of the Impact of the Tools of the Mind Curriculum on Self-Regulation in Canadian Preschoolers.Tracy Solomon, Andre Plamondon, Arland O’Hara, Heather Finch, Geraldine Goco, Peter Chaban, Lorrie Huggins, Bruce Ferguson & Rosemary Tannock - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  • Associations Between Aerobic Fitness and Cognitive Control in Adolescents.Daniel R. Westfall, Anne K. Gejl, Jakob Tarp, Niels Wedderkopp, Arthur F. Kramer, Charles H. Hillman & Anna Bugge - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • The Role of Working Memory for Cognitive Control in Anorexia Nervosa versus Substance Use Disorder.Samantha J. Brooks, Sabina G. Funk, Susanne Y. Young & Helgi B. Schiöth - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  • Mindfulness meditation modulates reward prediction errors in a passive conditioning task.Ulrich Kirk & P. Read Montague - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • The ‘Operational’ Definition of Self-Control.Marleen Gillebaart - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • The significance of Executive Functions for the Trait of Self-Control: A Psychometric Study.Edward Nęcka, Aleksandra Gruszka, Jarosław Orzechowski, Michał Nowak & Natalia Wójcik - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Trait Self-Control, Inhibition, and Executive Functions: Rethinking some Traditional Assumptions.Matthew C. Haug - 2021 - Neuroethics 14 (2):303-314.
    This paper draws on work in the sciences of the mind to cast doubt on some assumptions that have often been made in the study of self-control. Contra a long, Aristotelian tradition, recent evidence suggests that highly self-controlled individuals do not have a trait very similar to continence: they experience relatively few desires that conflict with their evaluative judgments and are not especially good at directly and effortfully inhibiting such desires. Similarly, several recent studies have failed to support the view (...)
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  • Montessori Preschool Elevates and Equalizes Child Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study.Angeline S. Lillard, Megan J. Heise, Eve M. Richey, Xin Tong, Alyssa Hart & Paige M. Bray - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  • A tale of two cities: an experiment on inequality and preferences.Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti & Veronica Rattini - 2021 - Theory and Decision 92 (1):189-222.
    The existence of a strong link between socio-economic background and individual preferences has been documented among both children and grown-ups. Here, we study whether such a correlation persists even in a highly homogeneous population of young adults: university students. Our findings indicate that participants living in an area characterized by a high socio-economic environment tend to trust more and are more inclined to reciprocate higher levels of trust, as compared to those coming from less wealthy neighborhoods. This behavioral difference is, (...)
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  • Adam Smith’s Theory of Prudence Updated with Neuroscientific and Behavioral Evidence.Eleonora Viganò - 2017 - Neuroethics 10 (2):215-233.
    Other-perspective taking, distancing, time discounting as well as risk and loss aversion highly affect decision-making. Even though they influence each other, so far these cognitive processes have been unrelated or only partly related to each other in neuroscience. This article proposes a philosophical interpretation of these cognitive processes that is elaborated in the updated theory of Adam Smith’s prudence. The UTSP is inspired by Smith’s account of prudence and is in line with the neuroscientific and behavioral studies on OPT, distancing, (...)
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  • The role of empathy in choosing rewards from another's perspective.Garret O'Connell, Anastasia Christakou, Anthony T. Haffey & Bhismadev Chakrabarti - 2013 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7.
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  • Are Individual Differences in Arithmetic Fact Retrieval in Children Related to Inhibition?Elien Bellon, Wim Fias & Bert De Smedt - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7:180700.
    Although it has been proposed that inhibition is related to individual differences in mathematical achievement, it is not clear how it is related to specific aspects of mathematical skills, such as arithmetic fact retrieval. The present study therefore investigated the association between inhibition and arithmetic fact retrieval and further examined the unique role of inhibition in individual differences in arithmetic fact retrieval, in addition to numerical magnitude processing. We administered measures of cognitive inhibition (i.e., numerical and non-numerical stroop tasks) and (...)
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  • States of nature and states of mind: a generalized theory of decision-making.Iain P. Embrey - 2020 - Theory and Decision 88 (1):5-35.
    Canonical economic agents act so as to maximize a single, representative, utility function. However, there is accumulating evidence that heterogeneity in thought processes may be an important determinant of individual behavior. This paper investigates the implications of a vector-valued generalization of the Expected Utility paradigm, which permits agents either to deliberate as per Homo economics, or to act impulsively. This generalized decision theory is applied to explain the crowding-out effect, irrational educational investment decisions, persistent social inequalities, the pervasive influence of (...)
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  • Delay of Gratification, Delay Discounting and their Associations with Age, Episodic Future Thinking, and Future Time Perspective.Lars M. Göllner, Nicola Ballhausen, Matthias Kliegel & Simon Forstmeier - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  • Intra-individual variability adaptively increases following inhibition training during middle childhood.Roser Cañigueral, Keertana Ganesan, Claire R. Smid, Abigail Thompson, Nico U. F. Dosenbach & Nikolaus Steinbeis - 2023 - Cognition 239 (C):105548.
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  • Seeing conflict and engaging control: Experience with contrastive language benefits executive function in preschoolers.Sabine Doebel & Philip David Zelazo - 2016 - Cognition 157:219-226.
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  • Relations among Temperament, Self-regulatory Strategies and Gender in Predicting Delay of Gratification.Fang Hong, Stacey N. Doan, Angelica Lopez & Gary W. Evans - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  • Understanding Performance Decrements in a Letter-Canceling Task: Overcoming Habits or Inhibition of Reading.Larry Myers, Steven Downie, Grant Taylor, Jessica Marrington, Gerald Tehan & Michael J. Ireland - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Some Middle School Students Want Behavior Commitment Devices.Carly D. Robinson, Gonzalo A. Pons, Angela L. Duckworth & Todd Rogers - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Emotional Availability Modulates Electrophysiological Correlates of Executive Functions in Preschool Children.Henriette Schneider-Hassloff, Annabel Zwönitzer, Anne K. Künster, Carmen Mayer, Ute Ziegenhain & Markus Kiefer - 2016 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10.
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  • Effects of Cognitive Control Exertion and Motor Coordination on Task Self-Efficacy and Muscular Endurance Performance in Children.Jeffrey D. Graham, Yao-Chuen Li, Steven R. Bray & John Cairney - 2018 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12:347028.
    Emerging research shows a strong connection between brain areas governing cognition and motor behavior. Yet, research investigating the negative aftereffects of cognitive control exertion on task performance has not considered the potential role of areas governing motor behavior. The present study investigated the effects of high cognitive control exertion on task self-efficacy and exercise performance in children. A secondary purpose was to investigate whether motor coordination influences the change in exercise performance differently following low versus high cognitive control exertion. Participants (...)
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  • Heterogeneity in Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Functioning in Adolescents With On-Track and Delayed School Progression.Loren Vandenbroucke, Wouter Weeda, Nikki Lee, Dieter Baeyens, Jon Westfall, Bernd Figner & Mariëtte Huizinga - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • The dampening effect of employees’ future orientation on cyberloafing behaviors: the mediating role of self-control.Heyun Zhang, Huanhuan Zhao, Jingxuan Liu, Yan Xu & Hui Lu - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • Articulation Speaks to Executive Function: An Investigation in 4- to 6-Year-Olds.Nicole Netelenbos, Robbin L. Gibb, Fangfang Li & Claudia L. R. Gonzalez - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9:316841.
    Executive function (EF) and language learning play a prominent role in early childhood development. Empirical research continues to point to a concurrent relation between these two faculties. What has been given little attention, however, is the association between EF and speech articulation abilities in children. This study investigated this relation in children aged 4–6 years. Significant correlations indicated that children with better EF [via parental report of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) inventory] exhibited stronger speech sound production (...)
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  • Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being.Nina Richter, Rebecca Bondü, C. Katharina Spiess, Gert G. Wagner & Gisela Trommsdorff - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • The Role of Attention Shifting in Orthographic Competencies: Cross-Sectional Findings from 1st, 3rd, and 8th Grade Students. [REVIEW]von Suchodoletz Antje, Fäsche Anika & T. Skuballa Irene - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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