self-control
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The paper, "Self-Control Signals and Affords Power," was also co-authored with Texas A&M University associate professor Rachel Smallman.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024
When the rover Perseverance touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, Ethan Kross, a professor and director of the Emotion and Self-Control Lab at the University of Michigan, felt something powerful: awe.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2021
Download the Self-Control app if you don’t trust yourself to stop visiting these ex-girlfriends’ profile pages even after you’ve deleted your account.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2017
Daniel Akst, author of We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, explains how we can use “precommitment devices” to rein in desire:
From Time • Jul. 24, 2015
Self-Control Of The American Democracy The American people acquiesces slowly, or frequently does not acquiesce, in what is beneficial to its interests—The faults of the American democracy are for the most part reparable.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry
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