Job et al., in prep: Reinterpreting willpower as unlimited improved academic regulation among college students who struggled with self-control a month later
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College students learned that how you think about willpower—as dependent on a limited resource or not—matters, and that you can choose how to think about it, and wrote a letter of advice to a person who struggles with willpower. Among students who faced high demands on self-control this improved self-reported academic regulation a month later and raised end-of-term grades.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
Selves (My Own and Others')Approach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Changing beliefs about emotions, states, and the valence of the self-conceptHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Are current or upcoming emotions, states, and experiences negative and undermining?Are current or upcoming emotions, states, and experiences negative and undermining?Psychological Question Addressed
Are current or upcoming emotions, states, and experiences negative and undermining?Psychological Process 2:
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Social Area:
Education
Intervention Technique:
Increasing commitment through action, saying-is-believing