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Understanding Self-Regulation Failure: A Motivated Effort-Allocation Account
Much recent research has challenged the long-standing idea that people have a limited capacity for self-regulation that depletes with use and impairs their ability for further regulation. Instead, failures to sustain self-regulation appear to be more related to waning motivations. One question that remains unanswered, however, is how these motivations wane and why, if there is no fixed capacity, sustaining self-regulation is often so difficult. In this talk I will discuss a new model of self-regulation failure that revolves around a process of motivated effort-allocation driven by people’s experiences of effort and fatigue. I will also discuss some preliminary research in my lab aimed at better understanding what affects these experiences and how that translates into more or less effective self-regulation.
Much recent research has challenged the long-standing idea that people have a limited capacity for self-regulation that depletes with use and impairs their ability for further regulation. Instead, failures to sustain self-regulation appear to be more related to waning motivations. One question that remains unanswered, however, is how these motivations wane and why, if there is no fixed capacity, sustaining self-regulation is often so difficult. In this talk I will discuss a new model of self-regulation failure that revolves around a process of motivated effort-allocation driven by people’s experiences of effort and fatigue. I will also discuss some preliminary research in my lab aimed at better understanding what affects these experiences and how that translates into more or less effective self-regulation.
Building: | East Hall |
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Event Type: | Presentation |
Tags: | brown bag, Psychology, Social |
Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Department of Psychology, Social Psychology |