{"id":195,"date":"2007-10-17T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/resisting-one-temptation-makes-you-vulnerable-to-another"},"modified":"2007-10-17T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:13:31","slug":"resisting-one-temptation-makes-you-vulnerable-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/resisting-one-temptation-makes-you-vulnerable-to-another","title":{"rendered":"Resisting one temptation makes you vulnerable to another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-science.net\/othernews\/071011_self-control.htm\">Recent research<\/a> suggests that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As hu\u00admans, we have lim\u00adit\u00aded re\u00adsources to con\u00adtrol our\u00adselves, re\u00adsearch\u00aders say; all acts of con\u00adtrol draw from one source. So when us\u00ading this re\u00adsource in one do\u00admain, such as di\u00adet\u00ading, we\u2019re more likely to run out of it in an\u00adoth\u00ader do\u00admain, like stu\u00addy\u00ading hard.<\/p>\n<p>Once these re\u00adsources run out, our self-con\u00adtrol abil\u00adity is di\u00admin\u00adished, ac\u00adcord\u00ading to sci\u00adent\u00adists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an experiment, the scientists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>asked par\u00adti\u00adci\u00adpants to sup\u00adpress their emo\u00adtions while watch\u00ading an up\u00adset\u00adting mov\u00adie. The idea was to de\u00adplete their re\u00adsources for self-con\u00adtrol. The par\u00adti\u00adci\u00adpants re\u00adported their abil\u00adity to sup\u00adpress their feel\u00adings on a scale from one to nine. Then, they com\u00adplet\u00aded a Stroop task, which in\u00advolves nam\u00ading the col\u00ador of printed words (i.e. say\u00ading red when read\u00ading the word \u201cgreen\u201d writ\u00adten in red), yet an\u00adoth\u00ader task that re\u00adquires self-con\u00adtrol.<\/p>\n<p>The re\u00adsearch\u00aders found that those who sup\u00adpressed their emo\u00adtions per\u00adformed worse on the task, in\u00addi\u00adcat\u00ading that they had used up their self-con\u00adtrol re\u00adsources while hold\u00ading back their tears dur\u00ading the film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-science.net\/othernews\/071011_self-control.htm\">full article<\/a>. Scott Adams has a <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2007\/10\/your-virtual-wi.html\">humorous take on this<\/a> that might amuse you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests that: As hu\u00admans, we have lim\u00adit\u00aded re\u00adsources to con\u00adtrol our\u00adselves, re\u00adsearch\u00aders say; all acts of con\u00adtrol draw from one source. So when us\u00ading this re\u00adsource in one do\u00admain, such as di\u00adet\u00ading, we\u2019re more likely to run out of it in an\u00adoth\u00ader do\u00admain, like stu\u00addy\u00ading hard. Once these re\u00adsources run out, our self-con\u00adtrol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/resisting-one-temptation-makes-you-vulnerable-to-another\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resisting one temptation makes you vulnerable to another<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}