description: the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
169 results
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
cultural revolution against all things ‘vertical’. War had been declared on all aspects of ‘the Indo-European, Islamic, Hebraic impulse-control system,’[7] whose genuine faults had become associated with all and any impulse control, hierarchy, order or structure. A kind of corrupted cultural Levelling had taken hold, and the result was our culture
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, 15–16, 109, 145, 154, 198, 276 totalitarian, 16, 120–21, 227–28, 286, 288–89 Illich, Ivan, 219 immigration, 201 immortality, 177 imperialism, 100 impulse control, 141–42 India, 18, 247 indigeneity, 312–14 individualism, 38, 58, 189 Reformation relation to, 73 sexual revolution and, 226, 241–42 Indonesia, 18, 125
by Danny Funt · 20 Jan 2026 · 285pp · 100,897 words
Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM—known as “the bible of psychiatric assessment”—had added its first-ever entry for pathological gambling, a “disorder of impulse control.” This breakthrough was largely driven by the pioneering research of Dr. Robert Custer, who rejected the popular Freudian theory at the time that people gambled
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
by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Mar 2019 · 596pp · 163,351 words
decide that reassembling her airgun was a productive use of my time, and that’s not the sort of equipment that goes well with poor impulse control. Besides, I probably needed my empathy in order to create some kind of emotional bond with her and get her on my side. Or at
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
by Luke Rhinehart · 1 Jan 1971 · 524pp · 143,596 words
to Dr. Moon and resumed. 'Every personality is the sum total of accumulated suppressions of minorities. Were a man to develop a consistent pattern of impulse control he would have no definable personality: ha would be unpredictable and anarchic, one might even say, free.' 'He would be insane,' came Dr. Peerman's
by Alexander Elder · 1 Jan 2008 · 394pp · 85,252 words
not punish myself for losses. • Some traders are destined to fail The markets produce endless temptations, which is why people with a history of poor impulse control are likely to lose in trading. Those who are actively drinking or using substances are highly unlikely to succeed. They may have a few lucky
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essential because the markets present an endless parade of temptations. Please identify the incorrect statement among the following:1. People with a history of poor impulse control are likely to fail in trading. 2. AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) provides a useful model for dealing with market temptations. 3. If you have a good
by Bandy X. Lee · 2 Oct 2017 · 369pp · 105,819 words
, future-oriented people do very well in life. They are less aggressive, are less depressed, have more energy, take care of their health, have good impulse control, and have more self-esteem. Those stuck in the past, and locked into negative memories, feel fatalistic about the present and may have lost the
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worse. An inability to have a consistent realistic view of the world, or to maintain emotionally genuine relationships, leads to more paranoia. The weakness in impulse control which arises from enraged reactions to imagined slights and produces reckless, destructive behavior, leads to a greater need to deny criticism with more lies to
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the rule of law (Kendall 2016), intolerance of perspectives different from his own (DelReal and Gearan 2016), rageful responses to criticism (Sebastian 2016), lack of impulse control (“Transcript” 2016), and sweeping condemnations of entire populations (Reilly 2016) rendered him temperamentally unsuitable to be in command of the nuclear arsenal. When Mr. Trump
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
by Daniel Coyle · 27 Apr 2009 · 257pp · 68,203 words
be Se Ri Pak. Every time a KIPP student forces himself to obey one of these persnickety rules, a circuit is fired, insulated, and strengthened. (Impulse control, after all, is a circuit like any other.) Every time the entire school screeches to a halt to fix misbehavior, skills are being built as
by Richard Baldwin · 10 Jan 2019 · 301pp · 89,076 words
by Walter Isaacson · 11 Sep 2023 · 562pp · 201,502 words
by David Eagleman · 29 May 2011 · 383pp · 92,837 words
by Lindsay C. Gibson · 31 May 2015 · 200pp · 61,579 words
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
by Kelly McGonigal · 1 Dec 2011 · 354pp · 91,875 words
by Sam Harris · 5 Oct 2010 · 412pp · 115,266 words
by Kevin Dutton · 15 Oct 2012 · 280pp · 85,091 words
by Jeff Flake · 31 Jul 2017 · 138pp · 43,748 words
by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen · 2 Nov 1999 · 435pp · 136,906 words
by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen · 18 Feb 2015 · 435pp · 136,741 words
by Gabor Mate and Peter A. Levine · 5 Jan 2010 · 504pp · 147,660 words
by Tyler Cowen · 15 Oct 2018 · 140pp · 42,194 words
by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long · 13 Aug 2018 · 287pp · 78,609 words
by Jon Ronson · 12 May 2011 · 274pp · 70,481 words
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
by Marc Lewis Phd · 13 Jul 2015 · 288pp · 73,297 words
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by Max More and Natasha Vita-More · 4 Mar 2013 · 798pp · 240,182 words
by Michael Wolff · 5 Jan 2018 · 394pp · 112,770 words
by Christopher Lasch · 1 Jan 1978
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by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
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by Jeffrey Kluger · 25 Aug 2014 · 295pp · 89,280 words
by Irvin D. Yalom and Molyn Leszcz · 1 Jan 1967
by Lanius, Ruth A.; Vermetten, Eric; Pain, Clare · 11 Jan 2011
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by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss · 31 May 2005
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