Getting Our Act Together: Toward a General Model of Self-Control

Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Magen, Eran ^a   Gross, James J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cybernetic process; Delay of gratification; Emotion; Emotion regulation; Intervention design; Reappraisal; Reconstrual; Response modulation; Self control; Self regulation; Suppression; Temptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195391381.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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