{"id":935,"date":"2011-08-03T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T08:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=935"},"modified":"2023-07-23T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:29:21","slug":"social-influences-on-self-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/webinars\/decision-making-for-a-social-world\/social-influences-on-self-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Social influences on self-control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Social influences on &#8220;self&#8221;-control<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(link to the article)<\/p>\n<p>Joe Kable, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>As Duckworth and Kern (2011) note, currently over 1% of the abstracts in PsycInfo are indexed by \u201cself-control\u201d or one its synonyms. As part of this widespread interest, cognitive and neural scientists are debating the psychological mechanisms of self-control (Ainslie, 1975; Metcalfe &amp; Mischel, 1999; Muraven &amp; Baumeister, 2000), and the implementation of these mechanisms in the brain (Figner, et al., 2010; Hare, Camerer, &amp; Rangel, 2009; Hare, Malmaud, &amp; Rangel, 2011; Kable &amp; Glimcher, 2007, 2010; McClure, Ericson, Laibson, Loewenstein, &amp; Cohen, 2007; McClure, Laibson, Loewenstein, &amp; Cohen, 2004). These efforts, however, currently proceed without much agreement on a theoretical or operational definition regarding what constitutes \u201cself-control\u201d (Duckworth &amp; Kern, 2011). Definitions have been offered, of course, but one gets the sense that many investigators are content defining self-control in much the same manner that American courts define pornography \u2013 \u201cI know it when I see it\u201d (Jacobellis vs Ohio, 1964). Just as our intuitions regarding physics can be mistaken, so too can our intuitions regarding psychology (Stanovich, 1985). This essay argues that an over-reliance on \u201cintuitive psychics\u201d is hindering efforts to identify the cognitive and neural processes involved in self-control. Specifically, current theories tend to underemphasize or ignore completely a factor of critical importance \u2013 the social world. Yet, \u201cself-control\u201d is a concept that only emerges at the level of the person in society: it is the social world that defines what is and is not a self-control problem. This realization has important implications for people interested in cognitive and neural mechanisms: it suggests that self-control is unlikely to be a single process; that the computation of social norms is an understudied process that is likely critical for self-controlled behavior; and that interventions that target the social context to increase the influence of norms may prove the strongest way to increase self-controlled behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social influences on &#8220;self&#8221;-control (link to the article) Joe Kable, University of Pennsylvania As Duckworth and Kern (2011) note, currently over 1% of the abstracts in PsycInfo are indexed by \u201cself-control\u201d or one its synonyms. 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