Psychology of self-control

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    • Durante, Ampelio
    • Mammoliti, Claud

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Psychology of self-control

Ampelio Durante and Claud Mammoliti, editors

(Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions series)(Psychology research progress series)

Nova Science, c2012

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the psychology of self-control. Topics discussed include sociotropy-autonomy and self-control; a computerised detour task for the assessment of self-control behaviour; a gender specific analysis of impulsivity and aggression; intuitions about self-control and the ideomotor principle; the self-management correlates of social anxiety and children's increased mental control through external cues.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • On Young Women Becoming Sexually Resourceful: A Pilot Study
  • Self-Control: An Orphan Construct in Search of a Theory?
  • Sociotropy-Autonomy & Self-Control
  • A Computerized Detour Task for the Assessment of Self-Control Behavior
  • Socialization & Low Self-Control: A Gender Specific Analysis of Impulsivity & Aggression
  • The 'What' of Doing: Introspection-Based Evidence for James's Ideomotor Principle
  • The Self-Management Correlates of Social Anxiety
  • Giving Children a Prefrontal Cortex?: Increased Mental Control through External Cues
  • Index.

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