PSYC19H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter INTRO: Waking Hours, Protestant Reformation, Social Science
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Success is always accompanied by a variety of qualities. Personal qualities that predict positive outcomes in life: intelligence and self-control. Baumeister: observed willpower in a lab and found that it gives people the strength to persevere, people lose self-control as their willpower is depleted and mental energy is refueled by glucose in the body"s bloodstream. Willpower is like a muscle, it becomes fatigued over time with us, but can also become strengthened with exercise. Most major problems center on failure of self-control. Most intensively studied topic in social science since baumeister"s studies. If you ask people to list their greatest strengths, they will not list self-control. When asked about your failures, a lack of self-control is the top of the list. People feel overwhelmed because of all the temptations out there in the world. A typical computer user checks out more than 3 dozen sites a day.
