Emotions influence behavior. Part of growing up is learning how to manage our emotions and exercise self-control so that we can treat ourselves and others with respect. Six-year-olds can ...

Emotions influence behavior. Part of growing up is learning how to manage our emotions and exercise self-control so that we can treat ourselves and others with respect. Seven-year-olds can ...

To improve willpower, it boils down to “just try harder,” said Kentaro Fujita, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University who studies self-regulation and decision making. But self-control ...

The opposite of self-control is not “spending.” The opposite of self-control is “being out of control.” If you are not controlling yourself, something else is controlling you.

But scientific evidence shows it is clear that self-control has many benefits, not just at work, but also in other areas of life. Most notably, there is compelling data showing that children who ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens ...

But as suggested by a theory published by Professor Thomas Lynch in 2018, high self-control may not always be a good thing —and, for some, it could be linked to certain mental health problems.

But self-control is a tricky thing as we often have to forgo what’s immediately enjoyable in the short term in order to gain something more valuable in the longer term.