impulse control
description: the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
170 results
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive With Enough
by Michael Easter · 25 Sep 2023 · 318pp · 95,383 words
could be deeply unwell. “The car is a Consumer Reports Best Buy!” I exclaimed. She just shook her head. It wasn’t just that my impulse control seemed to be in pieces. It was also that my newly unhinged impulses were directing me into baffling new territory. It was like the prodigal
Help for Women With ADHD: My Simple Strategies for Conquering Chaos
by Joan Wilder · 18 May 2016 · 37pp · 10,757 words
lower your IQ! Can you afford that? I can’t. When you’re rested, you concentrate and remember better. You’ll have more energy and impulse control, so you’ll eat better, exercise more, feel less stressed, and have an easier time managing your weight. Depending on how severe your symptoms are
The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
today that what academics have labeled “noncognitive skills” are the most influential determinants of lifetime achievement.8 The most convincing evidence of the connection between impulse control and long-term success has been documented by Terrie Moffit, a Duke University professor who, with a group of colleagues, spent decades keeping tabs on
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to the mission many educators have to break the cycle of urban poverty, a small coterie of scholars has tried to answer the question whether impulse control might explain why certain individuals are able to escape the traps of dysfunction while others are not. At the vanguard of the campaign to determine
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marshmallow test, a field of research has emerged more recently on the causes and effects of delayed gratification. Some scholars have come to wonder whether impulse control might offer insights into why certain individuals are able to escape dysfunction while others are mired in counterproductive patterns. At the vanguard of the campaign
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augmented as someone ages? Does the teaching style Mr. Gresens employed in my ninth-grade classroom have the potential to raise the lifelong level of impulse control? What seems clear, however, is that the discussions we typically have around the issues of education policy too often drown out another question: what exactly
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by Paul Roberts · 1 Sep 2014 · 324pp · 92,805 words
operating scales, and better efficiencies. And with the greater wealth that these more efficient strategies generated, society could develop even more finely tuned forms of impulse control. The story of civilization is arguably the story of societies getting better and better at persuading, coercing, or otherwise inducing individuals to repress their impulsiveness
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social conservatives and prudes—and the social norms they mourned were frequently repressive, unfair, discriminatory, or medieval. But those moral codes had served a purpose: impulse control—and now they were being eradicated as impediments to efficient consumption. And where it might have been conceivable to replace those old-fashioned norms with
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
use his fists in response to an insult was the sign of respectability.52 Today it is the sign of a boor, a symptom of impulse control disorder, a ticket to anger management therapy. An incident from 1950 illustrates the change. President Harry Truman had seen an unkind review in the Washington
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, B. J., Gotlib, I., Jonides, J., Kross, E., Teslovich, T., Wilson, N., Zayas, V., & Shoda, Y. I. In press. “Willpower” over the life span: Decomposing impulse control. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. Mitani, J. C., Watts, D. P., & Amsler, S. J. 2010. Lethal intergroup aggression leads to territorial expansion in wild chimpanzees. Current
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
by Tyler Cowen · 15 Oct 2018 · 140pp · 42,194 words
with cognition or self-control find it hardest to make this connection. Those same people are also more likely to have problems with obesity, gambling, impulse control, and even violence. These correlations don’t philosophically prove that their impatient choices are incorrect (maybe the gamblers are the wise ones and the rest
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
by Barbara Oakley Phd · 20 Oct 2008
): 173–82. 32. Leanne M. Williams et al., “‘Missing Links’ in Borderline Personality Disorder: Loss of Neural Synchrony Relates to Lack of Emotion Regulation and Impulse Control,” Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience 31, no. 3 (2006): 181–88. 33. Irle, Lange, and Sachsse, “Reduced Size.” 34. M. I. Posner et al., “An
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
by David Eagleman · 29 May 2011 · 383pp · 92,837 words
brain is a team of rivals, a competition among different neural populations. Because it’s a competition, this means the outcome can be tipped. Poor impulse control is a hallmark characteristic of the majority of criminals in the prison system.29 They generally know the difference between right and wrong actions, and
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to take advantage of the opportunity. The temptation overrides the concern for their future. If it seems difficult to empathize with people who have poor impulse control, just think of all the things you succumb to that you don’t want to. Snacks? Alcohol? Chocolate cake? Television? One doesn’t have to
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look far to find poor impulse control pervading our own landscape of decision making. It’s not that we don’t know what’s best for us, it’s simply that the
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that humans are all equal before the law. This built-in myth of human equality suggests that all people are equally capable of decision making, impulse control, and comprehending consequences. While admirable, the notion is simply not true. Some argue that even though the myth may be bullet-riddled, it may still
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acknowledges this, because the strain is too great to pretend that all brains are equal. Consider age. Adolescents command different skills in decision making and impulse control than do adults; a child’s brain is simply not like an adult’s brain.34 So American law draws a bright line between seventeen
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battle tips. And that opens up new opportunities for rehabilitation in our legal system: when we understand how the brain is really operating and why impulse control fails in some fraction of the population, we can develop direct new strategies to strengthen long-term decision making and tip the battle in its
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Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
by Jeff Flake · 31 Jul 2017 · 138pp · 43,748 words
was schooled in and that inspire and humble me every day. In short, there is a significant difference between appearing to have problems with impulse control and actually having impulse-control problems. And so in our own time, in a very different presidency, we would do well to examine anew the efficacy of unpredictability
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris · 5 Oct 2010 · 412pp · 115,266 words
we better understand the brain, we will increasingly understand all of the forces—kindness, reciprocity, trust, openness to argument, respect for evidence, intuitions of fairness, impulse control, the mitigation of aggression, etc.—that allow friends and strangers to collaborate successfully on the common projects of civilization. Understanding ourselves in this way, and
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cognition and feeling that intersect here: sensitivity to context, reasoning about other people’s beliefs, the interpretation of facial expressions and body language, suspicion, indignation, impulse control, etc. At what point do these disparate processes constitute an instance of moral cognition? It is difficult to say. At a minimum, we know that
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self-relevance. It also seems to register the difference between belief and disbelief. Injuries here have been associated with a variety of deficits including poor impulse control, emotional blunting, and the attenuation of social emotions like empathy, shame, embarrassment, and guilt. When frontal damage is limited to the MPFC, reasoning ability as
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impress his fellow gang members has displayed instrumental aggression. Subjects suffering from acquired sociopathy, who have generally sustained injuries to their orbitofrontal lobes, display poor impulse control and tend to exhibit increased levels of reactive aggression. However, they do not show a heightened tendency toward instrumental aggression. Psychopaths are prone to aggression
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by Robert M. Sapolsky · 1 May 2017 · 1,261pp · 294,715 words
The Dice Man
by Luke Rhinehart · 1 Jan 1971 · 524pp · 143,596 words
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by Christopher Lasch · 1 Jan 1978
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
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by Lanius, Ruth A.; Vermetten, Eric; Pain, Clare · 11 Jan 2011
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The Caryatids
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by John T. Cacioppo · 9 Aug 2009 · 327pp · 97,720 words
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