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Beyond willpower.

James Jonathan GrossAngela L Duckworth
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2021)
For all its popularity as a psychological construct, willpower is irremediably polysemous. A more helpful construct is self-control, defined as the self-regulation of conflicting impulses. We show how the process model of self-control provides a principled framework for examining how undesirable impulses may be weakened and desirable impulses may be strengthened.
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