PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: List Of Black Mirror Episodes, Symbolic Interactionism, Hyperbolic Discounting
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Those who avoid effort are poor at self control. Endowment effect: overvaluing things that you have: damage to certain regions can make choices more impulsive, cognitive and inhibitory control can affect the valuation process. Re-weighting inputs can affect self control: can use this for interventions. Researchers are saying that we shouldn"t feel bad when we fall for temptations. Exerting self control in the long term is not beneficial. People who have good self control don"t have these battles in the first place. Those who know they are good at self control were not using it at all. Those who had fewer temptations were more successful than those who had more self-control. Those who had more self control were more depleted. Those with better self control enjoy studying, exercising and being healthy they want to do these things. They have learned better habits structured their lives to avoid having to make a self-control decision.
