MetaFilter posts tagged with SelfControl

Decision Fatigue

homunculus — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:50:39 -0800

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? "The very act of making decisions depletes our ability to make them well. So how do we navigate a world of endless choice?"

Why Can’t More Poor People Escape Poverty?

reenum — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:37:26 -0800

Psychologists are now theorizing that humans have a depletable reservoir of self-control, and that this is why poor people remain poor.

You see this marshmallow? You don’t have to eat it. You can wait. Here’s how.

hindmost — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:30:17 -0800

In the late 1960s, Walter Mischel conducted a series of experiments on delayed gratification in preschoolers that became known as the Marshmallow Test. A recent New Yorker article talks about the eventual path that his research took and its wider implications. New research points to specific differences in brain activity between people with good self control and people with poor self control. Promising scientific findings aside, it's the (adorable) movie re-enactment of the marshmallow tests that is making news recently.

Self Control.

Prospero — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:05:48 -0800

"Self Control" is a song written by Giancarlo Bigazzi, Steve Piccolo, and Raffaele Riefoli in 1983; like many well-written pop songs, good musicians and production can make it better, but bad musicians have to work hard to destroy it. Without comment on which is which, here are five versions: RAF (1983, performed by one of the song's credited writers); Laura Branigan (1984); Soraya Arnelas (2006--this version reached #1 on the Spanish Hot 100); the Danish dance band Infernal (2006); and Caramelle featuring Nitro (2007, from a German label).