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What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control
Does self-control require willpower? The question cuts to the heart of a debate about whether self-control is identical with some psychological process internal to the agents or not. Noticeably absent from these debates is systematic evidence about the folk-psychological category of self-control. He...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10033625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36968025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00573-2 |
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author | Bermúdez, Juan Pablo Murray, Samuel Chartrand, Louis Barbosa, Sergio |
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description | Does self-control require willpower? The question cuts to the heart of a debate about whether self-control is identical with some psychological process internal to the agents or not. Noticeably absent from these debates is systematic evidence about the folk-psychological category of self-control. Here, we present the results of two behavioral studies (N = 296) that indicate the structure of everyday use of the concept. In Study 1, participants rated the degree to which different strategies to respond to motivational conflict exemplify self-control. Participants distinguished between intra-psychic and externally-scaffolded strategies and judged that the former exemplified self-control more than the latter. In Study 2, participants provided various solutions to manage motivational conflict and rated their proposals on effectiveness. Participants produced substantially more intra-psychic strategies, rated them as more effective, and advised them at a higher rate than externally-scaffolded strategies. Taken together, these results suggest that while people recognize a plurality of strategies as genuine instances of self-control, purely internal exercises of self-control are considered more prototypical than their externally-scaffolded counterparts. This implies a hierarchical structure for the folk psychological category of self-control. The concept encompasses a variety of regulatory strategies and organizes these strategies along a hierarchical continuum, with purely intra-psychic strategies at the center and scaffolded strategies in the periphery. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13164-021-00573-2. |
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spelling | pubmed-100336252023-03-24 What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control Bermúdez, Juan Pablo Murray, Samuel Chartrand, Louis Barbosa, Sergio Rev Philos Psychol Article Does self-control require willpower? The question cuts to the heart of a debate about whether self-control is identical with some psychological process internal to the agents or not. Noticeably absent from these debates is systematic evidence about the folk-psychological category of self-control. Here, we present the results of two behavioral studies (N = 296) that indicate the structure of everyday use of the concept. In Study 1, participants rated the degree to which different strategies to respond to motivational conflict exemplify self-control. Participants distinguished between intra-psychic and externally-scaffolded strategies and judged that the former exemplified self-control more than the latter. In Study 2, participants provided various solutions to manage motivational conflict and rated their proposals on effectiveness. Participants produced substantially more intra-psychic strategies, rated them as more effective, and advised them at a higher rate than externally-scaffolded strategies. Taken together, these results suggest that while people recognize a plurality of strategies as genuine instances of self-control, purely internal exercises of self-control are considered more prototypical than their externally-scaffolded counterparts. This implies a hierarchical structure for the folk psychological category of self-control. The concept encompasses a variety of regulatory strategies and organizes these strategies along a hierarchical continuum, with purely intra-psychic strategies at the center and scaffolded strategies in the periphery. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13164-021-00573-2. Springer Netherlands 2021-09-30 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10033625/ /pubmed/36968025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00573-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Bermúdez, Juan Pablo Murray, Samuel Chartrand, Louis Barbosa, Sergio What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control |
title | What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control |
title_full | What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control |
title_fullStr | What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control |
title_full_unstemmed | What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control |
title_short | What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control |
title_sort | what’s inside is all that counts? the contours of everyday thinking about self-control |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10033625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36968025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00573-2 |
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