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Measuring Self-Control

http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/caplina/misers3.pdf

Skinner's Survey Is Not "Exhaustive" IMO

Who said that Skinner's survey of self-control techniques is exhaustive? An obvious self-control technique is to practice making the "good self-control choice" - but I don't see it on the list. --New Thought (talk) 10:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

this is his own description. I am not sure that doing something comprises a method of doing something.

Rewrite

I tagged this article for rewrite because it's merely a collection of links, which could even be called promotional links. It offers no information whatsoever on self control/willpower. Also the 2nd section should be moved to its own article. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 18:59, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find any good resources to expand the article. What I can do, however, is clean it up to make a rewrite easier. I'll get to work as soon as I get some changes made to a template I want to use. --Gray Porpoise 14:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I reorganized the information, putting the links in an "External links" section, and putting a splitsection template above the second section. I am not yet sure how the article should be rewritten, but I cleaned it up so the task will be easier. --Gray Porpoise 18:26, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This subject is very important and there are many good resources. I will also help in the most non-biased way possible. --Liane J. Leedom, M.D. 18:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a considerable amount to this page from a behavior analytic perspective. However, this is quite different from the perspective it was originally written in. I have perhaps 30 more research articles I can add, as well as an enormous amount of theory (all well cited!) that should be coming up on wikipedia in the next 2-3 months.

--florkle 06:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the section on conventional understandings of self control, the author states that in 2 Peter 1:5-8 "The Apostle Peter describes an increase in self control as fundamental to the salvation of a Christian." If one reads further, it is evident that this increase in self-control leads to a deeper knowledge of Christ, not salvation. Peter does not claim that one must display an increase of self control for salvation.

Katem2007 00:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The Marshmallow Test" times differ between the Procrastination and Self Controll article. Procrastination states 20 minutes while this article states 15 minutes.161.225.196.111 (talk) 02:31, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

technica

is this page too technical ? --florkle 16:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Resources

Interesting article in Science. I haven't had time to really look at it; there's a summary in ScienceDaily. II | (t - c) 18:08, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Noticed an interesting article in the New Yorker: Don’t! The secret of self-control. II | (t - c) 06:30, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Research shows temptation more powerful than individuals realize. Pretty unsurprising. Article isn't out yet. II | (t - c) 17:02, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Improving Sel-Control

Brain function has an impact on our ability to practice self-control. The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that houses our memory and our ability to make choices. Suggested ways to make this part of our brain healthy and functional are: 1. Don’t let blood sugar get low. 2. Get enough sleep. 3. Write down specific goals for your relationships, work, finances and health. 4. Practice self-control. Tell yourself No 5. Eat a balanced diet. 6. Protect your brain from activities that risk head injuries, or from damage from alcohol and drug use. Amen, Daniel G. Change Your Mind Change Your Life. Three Rivers Press (CA), 1998.Prudence61 (talk) 05:22, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SELF CONTROL

117.198.228.30 (talk) 16:32, 8 September 2009 (UTC)self control is the thing one must have . Temper is something that can break your very good relations. So, controling the temper and with letting it come out is what called self control If you ask a dress from your parents and they take some time to bring it to you.So you should be patient may be they get a style dress. This is what called"SELF CONTROL"...[reply]

Revising of Intro Paragraph

The introduction paragraph needs to include a much wider scope of the term, and remove reference of ego depletion, which needs counter-examples to support its merit, as well as some of the other ideas. Hopefully someone finds the strong counter-argumens to some statements here, and helps update the article, so the reader can be provided with a better background Vulcanlogic (talk) 02:02, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Overall problems

The article appears to have too many headings and it is unclear why all the people mentioned, e.g. Skinner, are important. Also it seems that the article doesn't do the best job of distinguishing between mainstream ideas and less mainstream ideas in the psychology literature. These are only my uninformed impressions upon reading the article, as I don't have any education in psychology and thus can't really offer much help myself. particle25 (talk) 02:36, 31 December 2009 (EST)

Outcomes as determining whether a self-control choice is made

I find this somewhat unclear and ambiguous.

Specifically "There tends to be a relationship between the value of the incentive and the desired outcome; the larger the desired outcome, the larger the value." For example, an incentive can directly be the desired outcome. A cake (=outcome)could be an incentive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.250.74.89 (talk) 06:24, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Point-of-view

Should the point of view be standardized for this article? (In the second-person,third-person sense, not in the opinionated POV sense.) There are instances of "you"s and "they"s and "one"s. --68.193.135.139 (talk) 06:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Self control or self-control

Both are used throughout the article, but only one should be used for the sake of consistency. I am unsure which is correct, but I'm assuming it's self control as it is the article title. 98.203.152.242 (talk) 03:51, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]