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(p.457) Index
(p.457) Index
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Adams, R., 412–14
addiction
acceptance and, 206
chemical-physical components of, 219–20
diachronic control and, 157
distinction between wanting and liking and, 247
“maturing out” of, 155
triggers and, 247–48
Ainslie, G.
on bad decisions, 1–2
on precommiting devices, 152–53
on sequential choice problems, 368
akrasia (weakness of will). See also willpower
argument for the impossibility of, 83
Aristotle on, 445
best-reasoned actions blocked by, 82–83
evaluation versus motivation considerations regarding, 84
forgetfulness and, 85–86
intentions and, 385
irresoluteness and, 84–86
prima facie judgments versus all-out judgments in evaluating, 83–84
procrastination and, 85–86
regard akrasia and, 392–93
Alquist, L., 25
Amaya, S., 416
Aristotle
on akrasia, 445
on moderation, 363
on narrative meaning in Mitys story, 143
on self-control and rational calculations, 363
self-control as a character virtue for, 361
on young people’s strong passions, 334
Baumeister, R.F.
on criticisms of ego-depletion model, 29–30
on ego-depletion and decision-making, 19–20
on ego-depletion and glucose levels, 24
on ego-depletion and pain, 24–25
on ego-depletion and self-control, 27
on emotions and self-control, 119
on meta-cognitive acts, 221
on planning and willpower, 22
Boyer, P., 446–47
Brekke, N.C., 303–4
Brink, D., 351–52
Cannon, C., 336
Carnevale, J.J., 74
Carruthers, G., 195–96
Carter, E.C., 38
Casey, B., 346–47
Chang, R., 280
Chernyak, N., 52
Cialdini, R.B., 279
cigarettes. See under temptation
Cohen, G., 184
cultural origins of beliefs regarding self-control
Cameroon and, 60
cognitive development scores and, 58–59
Germany and, 60
inhibitory control tasks as a means of measuring, 53–61
Korea and, 59–60
Dang, J., 38
D’Arms, J., 123
Davidson, D., 83–84
decision-making
attention and, 184
memory and, 20
mental effort and, 182–83
perspective-taking and, 184
pre-commitments to criteria for, 184
Delgado, M.R., 183–84
deliberate ignorance
cognitive stability and, 295
definition of, 294
epistemic justice and, 308–9
impartiality-enhancing exposure control and, 302–8
Nazi Era and, 296–97
“veil of ignorance” model (Rawls) and, 298
De Motu Animalium (Aristotle), 1–2
Dennett, D., 401
De Ridder, D., 27
de Silveira, C., 148
Dewey, J., 120
dieting. See under temptation
doctrine of double effect, 289
Doris, J., 416
dorsal premotor cortex (PMd), 112
Duckworth, A.L., 154
ego-depletion
fragmentation of the mind and, 248–50
glucose levels and, 23–24
memory and, 20
origins of the term, 17
pain and, 24–25
planning and, 22–23
rationality impacted by, 19
scientific evidence demonstrating, 17–18
emotion
enlightening self-realizations and, 135–38
escape from self-awareness and, 128–29
evaluative tradition of research and, 121–23
expected emotions and, 134
goal achievement progress reports and, 131–34
gut feelings and, 135
immediate emotions and, 134
“mood repair” and, 126–28
passivity and, 124–25
perceptualist account of, 122–23
self-evaluation and, 5
teleosemantic approach to, 122–23
tempting proximal goals and, 124–26
empathy
cognitive empathy and, 390–91
depletion objection regarding, 394–96
emotional empathy and, 390–92
epistemic objection regarding, 393–94
gift giving example and, 394
narrative capacity and, 143
prudential self-control and, 384–85
pure disregard and, 389–90
End of History Illusion, 246
Fivush, R., 148
Förster, J., 72
Freud, S., 245–46
Friedman, N.P., 342–43
Friese, M., 38–40
Gailliot, M., 23
Galinsky, A., 184
Gallagher, S., 437
Gollwitzer, P.M., 275
Graham v. Florida, 335
Greenberg, D., 144–45
Haffner, S., 296
Haidt, J., 262
Hare, R.D., 83
Hayenhjelm, M., 284
Heilman, R.M., 183–84
Henderson, M.D., 73
Herdova, M., 102
Holroyd, J., 298–99
hybrid skills of self-control
executive control processes and, 95–96
intellectualist versus anti-intellectualist conceptions of skill and, 91
intentional self-distraction and, 94–95
mental time travel and, 95
“natural gifts” conception of skill and, 92
normative control and, 93
Imhoff, R., 249
inhibitory control
definition of, 104–5
neural plasticity in the motor cortex and, 110–13
ventral premotor cortex and, 106–13
intentions
cooperation and, 328–32
first-person perspective and, 321–24
the self and, 319–20
values and, 318–20
Jackson v. Hobbs, 335
Job, V., 191
Johnen, V.M., 112
juvenile responsibility
in infancy through preschool, 343
punishment and, 335–36
scalar measures of responsibility and, 348–51
Kagan, E., 335–36
Kavka, G.S., 167–68
Kennedy, A., 335
Kesebir, S., 262
Kitayama, S., 51
Kitcher, P., 252
Kotabe, H.P., 267–68
Kugler, M.B., 305–6
Kushnir, T., 47–49
Kwan, D., 442–43
Lerner, J. S., 278
Liberman, N., 72
Locke, J., 151
MacCoon, D.G., 440–41
Magen, E., 370–71
Mann, T., 184
Markus, H.R., 51
Martin, L.N., 183–84
McGoey, L., 293
McKenna, M., 403–4
Mele, A.
on evaluation versus motivation, 84
on evaluative commitments to action, 166
on the evolution of moral responsibility, 341–42
on intentional self-deception, 297
on precommiting devices, 152–53
mental partitioning, 245–46
(p.462)
mental time travel
definition of, 438
knowledge of desired self and, 151–52
pre-experiencing and, 445–46
psychopaths’ inability to engage in, 158–59
temporal discounting rates and, 442–43
mere exposure effect, 246–47
Milgram studies, 35
Mischel, W.
Miyake, A., 342–43
Molden, D.C., 24
Monahan, K.C., 345–46
Moore, B., 369
morality
attributionist accounts of, 411–15
care/harm foundation and, 263
definitions of, 261
failures of reaction and, 403
fairness/reciprocity foundation and, 263
freedom and, 268–69
mood disorders and, 415
Moral Foundations Theory and, 262–64
narrative capacity and, 160
performance errors and, 416
reasons-responsiveness views and, 417–18
shame and guilt as factors in, 267–68
Sidgwickian capacities and, 408–10
social self-regulation and, 406–7
tracing responses and, 403–7
volitional impairments and, 401–2
Morse, S., 337
Moskowitz, G., 184
motivation
aspiration and, 9
“belief route” versus “feeling route” regarding, 97
context and, 153–54
expectancy and, 96–98
Hume and, 11
penalty-imposing contracts and, 9
self-regulation and, 228–29
Musil, R., 252
narrative capacity
agency and, 145
caring and, 158–60
cognitive change and, 154
context and, 153–55
development of, 148
diachronic control and, 157
empathy and, 143
intelligibility and, 143
knowledge of desired self and, 151–53
landscapes of action and, 148
life story model of identity and, 146–47
meaning-making and, 143–44
mental time travel and, 158–59
metaphysical identity and, 147
moral responsibility and, 160
narrative reasoning and, 144
temptation and, 149–50
Nausea (Sartre), 143–44
Navon, D., 72
negligence
Sidgwickian capacities and, 408–10
social self-regulation and, 406–7
tracing responses and, 403–7
Nelkin, D.K., 351
Nelson, K., 148
Nozick, R., 380
Paglieri, F., 434
Parfit, D., 436–37
Pascal, B., 137
Piccinini, G., 103
Pickard, H., 155
The Picture of Dorian Grey (Wilde), 250
placebo brain stimulation, 191–98
Plato, 381
Pocheptsova, A., 20
Poetics (Aristotle), 143
Prinz, J., 122–23
Proctor, R., 293
Raz, J., 412
Rosati, C., 143
Roskies, A., 338
Rozin, P., 266–67
Rubin, D., 144–45
Sartre, J.-P., 143–44
Savage, L., 378–79
Schachter, S., 22
Schiebinger, L.L., 293
Schweiger-Gallo, I., 135
self-control
action loop versus affect loop in, 131–32
“cold” automatic routines as potential obstacle to, 86
construal levels and, 73–75
dares and, 319–20
decompositional analysis of, 103–4
diachronic control and, 155–58
dual-systems model of, 88–91
dynamic choice and, 362–64
ego-depletion and, 17–18
glucose levels and, 23–24
guilt and, 134
individualism and, 269
interpersonal conflict and, 27–28
memory and, 142–43
muscle analogy regarding, 18
placebo suggestions and, 191–98
political conservatism and, 268
proactive self-control and, 116–17
proximal goals versus important goals in, 117–18
religiosity and, 268
success associated with, 26
volitional versus rational forms of, 11–12
self-governance
Sidgwickian capacities and, 408–10
social self-regulation and, 406–7
tracing responses and, 403–7
self-regulation
active involvement and, 225–26
ethics of mental life and, 228
motivation and, 228–29
self-alienation and, 236–37
sequential choice problems
commitment timing and, 362
delay of gratification paradigm and, 367–69
dual processing cognitive-affect systems and, 367–68
framing effects and, 367–82
hidden zeroes paradigm and, 369–71
rationality and, 375–82
small word frameworks and, 378–79
Sheeran, P., 22
Skinner, B. F., 2
Skrynka, J., 24
Slote, M., 413
Smart, J.J.C., 414
(p.465)
social accountability strategies
adjustments to the self versus adjustments to the environment and, 279
commitment types and, 276–78
cost-distribution factors and, 286–87
ethical constraints and, 282–91
marathon for charity example and, 288
reasons for implementing, 278–79
risk imposition and, 283–91
self-announcements and, 278
self-interest and, 280
virtue signaling and, 278
Solberg Nes, L., 24–25
Steinberg, L., 345
striatum, 369–70
Stroud, S., 85–86
Svavarsdottir, S., 234–35
“System 1” versus “System 2” cognitive processes, 89–91
Szpunar, K., 438–39
Tamir, M., 119
temptation
choice framings of, 221–22
ego-depletion and, 248–50
Frankfurt on, 205–6
hypocrisy paradigm and, 251
intertemporal choice scenarios and, 434–36
Mischel’s marshmallow study and, 244–45
motivational approaches to self-control and, 82
narrative capacity and, 149–50
pre-commitment strategies regarding, 441–42
religious views and, 252
repression and, 207–8
resistance of, 8, 26, 116–17, 189, 219, 243, 244–45, 248, 250–51, 317, 434–35, 440–41, 442, 444–45, 446
sequential choice problems and, 363
Tetlock, P.E., 278
Thomson, J. J., 285
Tillich, P., 296
Trost, M.R., 279
Uhlmann, E., 184
ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), 369–70
Vera-Estay, E., 346–47
Vohs, K.D., 19–20
Ward, A., 184
Watson, G., 411–12
Webb, T., 22
Wessel, J.R., 107
Wiers, R.W., 95
Wilde, O., 250
Williams, B., 180
willpower
durability of, 2–3
happiness and, 27
impact of beliefs of, 97
initiative and, 21
judgment-shifts at the time of action and, 156
planning and, 22
reactive self-control and, 124
Wolff, J., 284
Zajonc, R., 246