Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 14837-14842

  Job, Veronika ^a   Walton, Gregory M ^b   Bernecker, Katharina ^a   Dweck, Carol S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Ego depletion; Implicit theories; Self theories

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SELF CONTROL; STROOP TEST; THEORY OF MIND; WILLPOWER;

COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; EGO DEPLETION; IMPLICIT THEORIES; SELF THEORIES;

COGNITION; CULTURE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; VOLITION;

EID: 84883804683     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313475110     Document Type: Article

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