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Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain

Ran Hassin, Kevin Ochsner, and Yaacov Trope

Abstract

This book presents social, cognitive, and neuroscientific approaches to the study of self-control, connecting recent work in cognitive and social psychology with recent advances in cognitive and social neuroscience. It consists of three sections: The Social, The Mental, and The Brain. The “Mental” section is the book's anchor, examining within-individual self-control processes at all levels, from low-level attention to motivation and motivational systems. The “Social” section looks at group processes, broadly defined, and how groups and societies (attempt to) resolve conflicts between their gl ... More

Keywords: self control, society, mind, brain, social psychology, social neuroscience, low-level attention, motivation, motivational systems, group processes

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9780195391381
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195391381.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Ran Hassin, editor
The Hebrew University

Kevin Ochsner, editor
Columbia University

Yaacov Trope, editor
New York University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

PREFACE

CONTRIBUTORS

PART I Neural

CHAPTER 1 Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributions to Cognitive and Emotional Processing: A General Purpose Mechanism for Cognitive Control and Self-Control

Marie K. Krug, and Cameron S. Carter

CHAPTER 2 Damaged Self, Damaged Control: A Component Process Analysis of the Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on Human Decision Making

Lesley K. Fellows

CHAPTER 3 Working Hard or Hardly Working for those Rose-colored Glasses?: Behavioral and Neural Evidence for the Automatic Nature of Unrealistically Positive Self-Perceptions

Jennifer S. Beer

CHAPTER 4 Control in the Regulation of Intergroup Bias

David M. Amodio, and Patricia G. Devine

CHAPTER 5 Integrating Research on Self-Control across Multiple Levels of Analysis: Insights from Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Ethan Kross, and Kevin Ochsner

CHAPTER 6 Using the Stroop Task to Study Emotion Regulation

Jason Buhle, Tor Wager, and Ed Smith

CHAPTER 7 Motivational Influences on Cognitive Control: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

Hannah S. Locke, and Todd S. Braver

CHAPTER 8 The Common Neural Basis of Exerting Self-Control in Multiple Domains

Jessica R. Cohen, and Matthew D. Lieberman

PART II Mental

CHAPTER 9 Working Memory Capacity: Self-control Is (in) the Goal

James M. Broadway, Thomas S. Redick, and Randall W. Engle

CHAPTER 10 The Dynamic Control of Human Actions

Florian Waszak, Anne Springer, and Wolfgang Prinz

CHAPTER 11 Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control

Nachshon Meiran

CHAPTER 12 Unconscious Influences of Attitudes and Challenges to Self-Control

Deborah L. Hall, and B. Keith Payne

CHAPTER 13 Self-Control Over Automatic Associations

Karen Gonsalkorale, Jeffrey W. Sherman, and Thomas J. Allen

CHAPTER 14 Perish the Forethought: Premeditation Engenders Misperceptions of Personal Control

Carey K. Morewedge, Kurt Gray, and Daniel M. Wegner

CHAPTER 15 The Power of Planning: Self-Control by Effective Goal-striving

Peter M. Gollwitzer, Caterina Gawrilow, and Gabriele Oettingen

CHAPTER 16 Unpacking the Self-Control Dilemma and Its Modes of Resolution

Arie W. Kruglanski, and Catalina Kőpetz

CHAPTER 17 Conflict and Control at Different Levels of Self-Regulation

Abigail A. Scholer, and E. Tory Higgins

CHAPTER 18 Getting Our Act Together: Toward a General Model of Self-Control

Eran Magen, and James J. Gross

CHAPTER 19 Implicit Control of Stereotype Activation

Gordon B. Moskowitz, and Peizhong Li

CHAPTER 20 Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control

Nicole L. Mead, Jessica L. Alquist, and Roy F. Baumeister

CHAPTER 21 Walking the Line between Goals and Temptations: Asymmetric Effects of Counteractive Control

Ayelet Fishbach, and Benjamin A. Converse

CHAPTER 22 Seeing the Big Picture: A Construal Level Analysis of Self-Control

Kentaro Fujita, Yaacov Trope, and Nira Liberman

CHAPTER 23 From Stimulus Control to Self-Control: Toward an Integrative Understanding of the Processes Underlying Willpower

Ethan Kross, and Walter Mischel

PART III Social

CHAPTER 24 Self-Control in Groups

John M. Levine, Kira Alexander, and Thomas Hansen

CHAPTER 25 Justice as Social Self Control

Tom R. Tyler

CHAPTER 26 System Justification and the Disruption of Environmental Goal-Setting: A Self-Regulatory Perspective

Irina Feygina, Rachel E. Goldsmith, and John T. Jost

CHAPTER 27 Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self-Control

Howard Rachlin

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