Harnessing the need for immediate gratification: Cognitive reconstrual modulates the reward value of temptations

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 415-428

  Magen, Eran ^a   Gross, James J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal; Delay of gratification; Emotion regulation; Individual differences; Reconstrual; Reward value; Self regulation; Self control; Temptation; Willpower

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EXERTION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; REWARD;

EID: 34249085535     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.415     Document Type: Article

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