Attention, Self-Control, and Health Behaviors

By T. Mann, A. Ward. 2007

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Self-Control in School-Age Children (2014, background): “The dramatic influence of salient environmental cues on self-controlled behavior (Mann & Ward, 2007; Thaler & Sunstein, 2008; Wansink, 2007) helps explains why more self-controlled adults tend to avoid temptations as they go about their daily lives (Hofmann, Baumeister, F€orster, & Vohs, 2012).”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “…on the self has been a resurgence of concern with processes of self-regulation and control (Baumeister & Vohs, 2004) that have now been implicated in a wide range of applied problems, including educational achievement (Shoda, Mischel, & Peake, 1990) and health maintenance (Mann & Ward, 2007).”
What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control (2012, methodology): “According to the attentional myopia model of self-control (Mann & Ward, 2004, 2007; Ward & Mann, 2000), selfcontrol failure can occur when attention becomes too narrowly focused on central cues in the environment at the expense of focusing on more peripheral cues.”
Situational Strategies for Self-Control (2016, background): “For example, situational strategies may be particularly useful in furthering second-order goals when cognitive resources are necessarily diverted to some more urgent activity (e.g., Mann & Ward, 2007).”