Working Memory Capacity: Self-control Is (in) the Goal

Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Broadway, James M ^a   Redick, Thomas S ^a   Engle, Randall W ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Goal directed behavior; Individual differences; Intrusive thoughts; Mind wandering; Over general autobiographical memories; Self control; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195391381.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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