Thinking abstractly may help to boost self-control
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 14:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Many of the long term goals people strive for -- like losing weight -- require us to use self-control and forgo immediate gratification. And yet denying our immediate desires in order to reap future benefits is often very hard for us to do. Psychologists now propose that the way people subjectively understand, or construe, events can influence self-control.