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willpower is real

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:51 pm
by rydi
Choice, active response, self-regulation, and other volition may all draw on a common inner resource.
In Experiment 1, people who forced themselves to eat radishes instead of tempting chocolates
subsequently quit faster on unsolvable puzzles than people who had not had to exert self-control
over eating. In Experiment 2, making a meaningful personal choice to perform attitude-relevant
behavior caused a similar decrement in persistence. In Experiment 3, suppressing emotion led to a
subsequent drop in performance of solvable anagrams. In Experiment 4, an initial task requiring
high self-regulation made people more passive (i.e., more prone to favor the passive-response option).
These results suggest that the self's capacity for active volition is limited and that a range of
seemingly different, unrelated acts share a common resource.

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:05 pm
by Thael
yeah... its called Willpower... I haven't bought mine up in a while but it had sunk down to a 2 and I had to fix that... its better now

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:03 pm
by rydi
it works like it does in wod. you spend dots, and it is decreased until it refreshes. the above is an abstract for a larger article.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:08 am
by Amseriah
Thats really cool...would be interesting to read the full article.