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Stress and imagining future selves: resolve in the hot/cool framework.

Janet MetcalfeWilliam James Jacobs
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2021)
Although Ainslie dismisses the hot/cool framework as pertaining only to suppression, it actually also has interesting implications for resolve. Resolve focally involves access to our future selves. This access is a cool system function linked to episodic memory. Thus, factors negatively affecting the cool system, such as stress, are predicted to impact two seemingly unrelated capabilities: willpower and episodic memory.
Keyphrases
  • current status
  • working memory
  • stress induced
  • heat stress