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Self-control

Everything on this site about self-control — each one naming the study behind it.

You overestimate your ability to control your impulses.
The restraint bias is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to show self-control in the face of tempta…
You consistently overestimate your ability to handle immediate temptation.
The restraint bias is a pattern where individuals overestimate their self-control and consequently put themselves in s…
A minor lapse leads you to abandon all progress.
The what-the-hell effect explains why one small deviation from a goal often results in a total collapse of self-contro…
The more you try not to think, the more.
A 1994 study revealed that instructions to suppress a specific thought result in that thought becoming more cognitivel…
Doing a good deed makes us more likely to cheat later.
A 2010 study found that participants who bought green products were more likely to lie and steal in a subsequent task.…