Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain
How do we - societies and individuals alike - (sometimes) manage to act in line with our high priority goals when faced with tempting-yet-conflicting alternatives? In other words, how do we (sometimes) resolve a conflict between a superordinate, global goal and a subordinate, local one, and do so in favor of the global goal? These types of self-control dilemmas can be found in many contexts and may be described at many levels of analysis. Examples include the dilemmas faced by groups...
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How do we - societies and individuals alike - (sometimes) manage to act in line with our high priority goals when faced with tempting-yet-conflicting alternatives? In other words, how do we (sometimes) resolve a conflict between a superordinate, global goal and a subordinate, local one, and do so in favor of the global goal? These types of self-control dilemmas can be found in many contexts and may be described at many levels of analysis. Examples include the dilemmas faced by groups fostering cooperation among their members, when defection is more beneficial for each individual; dieters resisting a tempting cake, and the cognitive system trading off speed for accuracy in conflict tasks like the Stroop. This book presents social, cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to the study of self-control, connecting recent work in cognitive and social psychology with recent advances in cognitive and social neuroscience. It consists of three sections: The Social, The Mental, and The Brain. The "Mental" section is the book's anchor, examining within-individual self-control processes at all levels: from low-level attention to motivation and motivational systems. The "Social" section looks at group processes, broadly defined, and how groups and societies (attempt to) resolve conflicts between their global goals and the individual's self interest. The "Brain" section explores the brain processes that underlie self control attempts and speak directly to mental-level processes. In bringing together multiple perspectives on self-control dilemmas from internationally renowned researchers within various allied disciplines, this will be the first single-reference volume to illustrate the richness, depth, and breadth of the research in the new field of self control.
Neural 1. Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributions to Cognitive and Emotional Processing: A General Purpose Mechanism for Cognitive Control and Self-Control Marie K. Krug and Cameron S. Carter2. Damaged self, damaged control: A component process analysis of the effects of frontal lobe damage on human decision making Lesley K. Fellows3. Working Hard or Hardly Working for those Rose-colored Glasses?: Behavioral and Neural Evidence for the Automatic Nature of Unrealistically Positive Self-Perceptions Jennifer S. Beer4. Control in the regulation of intergroup bias David M. Amodio and Patricia G. Devine5. Integrating Research on Self-Control across Multiple Levels of Analysis: Insights from Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Ethan Kross, Kevin Ochsner6. Using the Stroop Task to Study Emotion Regulation Jason Buhle, Tor Wager, Ed Smith7. Motivational Influences on Cognitive Control: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective Hannah S. Locke and Todd S. Braver8. The Common Neural Basis of Exerting Self-Control in Multiple Domains Jessica R. Cohen & Matthew D. LiebermanMental9. Working Memory Capacity: Self-control is (in) the Goal James M. Broadway, Thomas S. Redick, Randall W. Engle10. The Dynamic Control of Human Actions Florian Waszak, Anne Springer, Wolfgang Prinz11. Task switching: Mechanisms underlying rigid vs. flexible self control Nachshon Meiran12. Unconscious influences of attitudes and challenges to self-control Deborah L. Hall, B. Keith Payne13. Self-control over Automatic Associations Karen Gonsalkorale, Jeffrey W. Sherman, and Thomas J. Allen14. Perish the Forethought: Premeditation Engenders Misperceptions of Personal Control Carey K. Morewedge, Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner15. The Power of Planning: Self-Control by Effective Goal Striving Peter M. Gollwitzer, Caterina Gawrilow, Gabriele Oettingen16. Unpacking the Self Control Dilemma and Its Modes of Resolution Arie W. Kruglanski & Catalina Kopetz17. Conflict and Control at Different Levels of Self-Regulation Abigail A. Scholer and E. Tory Higgins18. Getting Our Act Together: Toward a General Model of Self-Control Eran Magen & James J. Gross19. Implicit Control of Stereotype Activation Gordon B. Moskowitz, Peizhong Li20. Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control Nicole L. Mead, Jessica L. Alquist, Roy F. Baumeister21. Walking the Line between Goals and Temptations: Asymmetric Effects of Counteractive Control Ayelet Fishbach, Benjamin Converse22. Seeing the Big Picture: A Construal Level Analysis of Self-Control Kentaro Fujita, Yaacov Trope, Nira Liberman23. From Stimulus Control to Self-Control: Towards an Integrative Understanding of the Processes Underlying Willpower Ethan Kross, Walter MischelSocial 24. Self-Control in Groups John M. Levine, Kira Alexander, and Thomas Hansen25. Justice and the psychology of self-control Tom R. Tyler26. System Justification and the Disruption of Environmental Goal-Setting:A Self-Regulatory Perspective Irina Feygina, Rachel E. Goldsmith, John T. Jost27. Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self Control Howard Rachlin
