Exercising self-control is often difficult, whether declining a drink in order to drive home
safely, passing on the chocolate cake to stay on a diet, or ignoring text messages to finish …

We propose that asymmetric dependence between individuals (ie, power) produces
asymmetric social distance, with high-power individuals feeling more distant than low-power …

This research draws on protection motivation theory, temporal construal theory, and self‐
determination theory to understand consumption practices during a pandemic crisis by …

Many important learning tasks feel uninteresting and tedious to learners. This research
proposed that promoting a prosocial, self-transcendent purpose could improve academic …

The ability to influence behaviour is central to many of the key policy challenges in areas
such as health, finance and climate change. The usual route to behaviour change in …

Over the past several decades, Gottfredson & Hirschi's self-control theory (SCT) has
dominated research on self-control and crime. In this review, I assess the current state of self …

The notion that self-control entails effortful inhibition of impulses dominates prevailing
psychological models of self-control. This article describes some of the conceptual and …

Construal level theory proposes that temporal distance changes people's responses to
future events by changing the way people mentally represent those events. The greater the …

No behavior sits in a vacuum, and one behavior can greatly affect what happens next. We
propose a conceptual frame within which a broad range of behavioral spillovers can be …

Though human beings embody a unique ability for planned behavior, they also often act
impulsively. This insight may be important for the study of self-control situations in which …