Does self-control improve with practice? Evidence from a six-week training program

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 145, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1075-1091

  Miles, Eleanor ^a   Sheeran, Paschal ^b   Baird, Harriet ^c   Macdonald, Ian ^c   Webb, Thomas L ^c   Harris, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ego depletion; Intervention; Self control; Self control training; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONTROL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-CONTROL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84976507217     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000185     Document Type: Article

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