Self-control plays an important role in achieving our personal goals. Yet, self-control is hard and prone to failure – whether we’re trying to stick to a workout regimen, to reduce alcohol consumption ...

In order to be successful at school and work, and achieve our personal goals, we all need to exercise self-control by resisting immediate temptations and desires that conflict with other goals.

Good intentions are not enough. Sticking to one’s plan is hard work. We humans are notoriously poor at following through with our plans. We tend to be ambivalent about making a change. We want to lose ...

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits. By Christina Caron We tend to respect and even idolize ...

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’ ...

Johanna Peetz receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The ...