- Title Pages
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- CHAPTER 1 Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributions to Cognitive and Emotional Processing: A General Purpose Mechanism for Cognitive Control and Self-Control
- CHAPTER 2 Damaged Self, Damaged Control: A Component Process Analysis of the Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on Human Decision Making
- 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
- CHAPTER 4 Control in the Regulation of Intergroup Bias
- CHAPTER 5 Integrating Research on Self-Control across Multiple Levels of Analysis: Insights from Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- CHAPTER 6 Using the Stroop Task to Study Emotion Regulation
- CHAPTER 7 Motivational Influences on Cognitive Control: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
- CHAPTER 8 The Common Neural Basis of Exerting Self-Control in Multiple Domains
- CHAPTER 9 Working Memory Capacity: Self-control Is (in) the Goal
- CHAPTER 10 The Dynamic Control of Human Actions
- CHAPTER 11 Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control
- CHAPTER 12 Unconscious Influences of Attitudes and Challenges to Self-Control
- CHAPTER 13 Self-Control Over Automatic Associations
- CHAPTER 14 Perish the Forethought: Premeditation Engenders Misperceptions of Personal Control
- CHAPTER 15 The Power of Planning: Self-Control by Effective Goal-striving
- CHAPTER 16 Unpacking the Self-Control Dilemma and Its Modes of Resolution
- CHAPTER 17 Conflict and Control at Different Levels of Self-Regulation
- CHAPTER 18 Getting Our Act Together: Toward a General Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 19 Implicit Control of Stereotype Activation
- CHAPTER 20 Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 21 Walking the Line between Goals and Temptations: Asymmetric Effects of Counteractive Control
- CHAPTER 22 Seeing the Big Picture: A Construal Level Analysis of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 23 From Stimulus Control to Self-Control: Toward an Integrative Understanding of the Processes Underlying Willpower
- CHAPTER 24 Self-Control in Groups
- CHAPTER 25 Justice as Social Self Control
- CHAPTER 26 System Justification and the Disruption of Environmental Goal-Setting: A Self-Regulatory Perspective
- CHAPTER 27 Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self-Control
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control
Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control
- Chapter:
- (p.375) CHAPTER 20 Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control
- Source:
- Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain
- Author(s):
Nicole L. Mead
Jessica L. Alquist
Roy F. Baumeister
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
People break diets, procrastinate in the face of looming deadlines, imbibe too much alcohol the night before a midterm, struggle to save money, and lash out at loved ones and family members. They do all these things despite their best intentions not to. Why do people engage in such personally, interpersonally, and socially destructive behaviors? This chapter suggests that a major reason why people fail at self-control is because it relies on a limited resource. We define self-control as the capacity to alter one's responses; it is what enables people to forego the allure of short-term pleasures to institute responses that bring long-term rewards. One of the core functions of self-control may be to facilitate culture, which often requires that people curtail selfishness for the sake of effective group functioning. The first part of the chapter gives an overview of how self-control operates, including the possible biological basis of self-control. It covers a substantial body of literature suggesting that self-control operates on a limited resource, which becomes depleted with use. The second part of the chapter reviews the benefits of good self-control and the costs of bad self-control across a large variety of domains, such as consumption, self-presentation, decision making, rejection, aggression, and interpersonal relationships.
Keywords: self-control, ego depletion, willpower, impulse, motivation
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- Title Pages
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- CHAPTER 1 Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributions to Cognitive and Emotional Processing: A General Purpose Mechanism for Cognitive Control and Self-Control
- CHAPTER 2 Damaged Self, Damaged Control: A Component Process Analysis of the Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on Human Decision Making
- 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
- CHAPTER 4 Control in the Regulation of Intergroup Bias
- CHAPTER 5 Integrating Research on Self-Control across Multiple Levels of Analysis: Insights from Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- CHAPTER 6 Using the Stroop Task to Study Emotion Regulation
- CHAPTER 7 Motivational Influences on Cognitive Control: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
- CHAPTER 8 The Common Neural Basis of Exerting Self-Control in Multiple Domains
- CHAPTER 9 Working Memory Capacity: Self-control Is (in) the Goal
- CHAPTER 10 The Dynamic Control of Human Actions
- CHAPTER 11 Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control
- CHAPTER 12 Unconscious Influences of Attitudes and Challenges to Self-Control
- CHAPTER 13 Self-Control Over Automatic Associations
- CHAPTER 14 Perish the Forethought: Premeditation Engenders Misperceptions of Personal Control
- CHAPTER 15 The Power of Planning: Self-Control by Effective Goal-striving
- CHAPTER 16 Unpacking the Self-Control Dilemma and Its Modes of Resolution
- CHAPTER 17 Conflict and Control at Different Levels of Self-Regulation
- CHAPTER 18 Getting Our Act Together: Toward a General Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 19 Implicit Control of Stereotype Activation
- CHAPTER 20 Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 21 Walking the Line between Goals and Temptations: Asymmetric Effects of Counteractive Control
- CHAPTER 22 Seeing the Big Picture: A Construal Level Analysis of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 23 From Stimulus Control to Self-Control: Toward an Integrative Understanding of the Processes Underlying Willpower
- CHAPTER 24 Self-Control in Groups
- CHAPTER 25 Justice as Social Self Control
- CHAPTER 26 System Justification and the Disruption of Environmental Goal-Setting: A Self-Regulatory Perspective
- CHAPTER 27 Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self-Control
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX