The Physiology of Willpower: Linking Blood Glucose to Self-Control

By M. Gailliot, Roy F. Baumeister. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The strength model of self-regulation failure and health-related behaviour (2009, background): “Gailliot and coworkers (Gailliot & Baumeister, 2007a; Gailliot et al., 2007a) have recently demonstrated that blood glucose may be the control mechanism for the depletion of self-control stores.”
Building a Sustainable Model of Human Energy in Organizations: Exploring the Critical Role of Resources (2012, background): “…bodily resource of glucose in the bloodstream 2 † The Academy of Management Annals D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs ity o f M ic hi ga n] a t 1 1: 00 0 8 M ay 2 01 2 that enables people to have the willpower to exert self-control (e.g. Baumeister & Tierney, 2011; Gailliot & Baumeister, 2007).”
Free will in consumer behavior: Self-control, ego depletion, and choice (2008, background): “A review article by Gailliot and Baumeister (2007) found multiple links between blood glucose problems and poor self-control.”
Exploring the Interplay of Trait Self–Control and Ego Depletion: Empirical Evidence for Ironic Effects (2014, background): “It has been claimed that self-control depletes relatively large amounts of blood glucose (Gailliot & Baumeister, 2007) and that one single act of self-control is sufficient for glucose to drop below optimal levels (Gailliot, Baumeister, et al., 2007).”
Cognitive reflection test: Whom, how, when (2019, background): “When glucose levels are low, cerebral functioning is disrupted, producing numerous cognitive and behavioral deficits (Gailliot and Baumeister, 2007). In sum, our results show that conducting the CRT after the experiment can have a negative effect on CRT results. 4.5 The sequence of questions Frederi”
Effective regulation of affect: An action control perspective on emotion regulation (2012, methodology): “Christou-Champi et al. also measured the amount of effort expended in regulation by assessing heart rate variability (HRV) and blood glucose levels before and after the regulation task (Gailliot & Baumeister, 2007; Gailliot et al., 2007; Segerstrom & Nes, 2007).”
Natural resistance : exposure to nature and self-regulation, mood, and physiology after ego-depletion (2014, background): “Hartig, B€ o€ ok, Garvill, Olsson, and G€ arling (1996) conducted one experiment in which they tested effects of natural versus urban scenes without first experimentally inducing fatigue or stress and still found beneficial effects of nature, which they labeled ‘instorative effects’.”
Two minds, three ways: dual system and dual process models in consumer psychology (2012, background): “(In the case of hunger, lowered blood glucose levels may further impair S2’s ability to control attention and impulses [Gailliot and Baumeister 2007].)”
Self-control inhibits aggression. (2011, background): “There is also a reliable association between low blood glucose levels and individual differences in aggressive behavior (DeWall, Deckman, Gailliot, & Bushman, 2011; Gailliot & Baumeister, 2007).”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “One suggestion is that such tasks temporarily reduce blood glucose levels, resulting in subsequent impairments in self-regulation (Gailliot & Baumeister, 2007).”
From Ego Depletion to Vitality: Theory and Findings Concerning the Facilitation of Energy Available to the Self (2008, background): “People's energy for controlling their behaviors and suppressing impulses has also been shown to depend, at least in part, on sufficient levels of blood glucose, which presumably supply a source of energy required for self-control (e.g., Gaillot & Baumeister, 2007).”