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Study On The Influnence Of Choices On Self-control

Posted on:2011-07-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167330332965525Subject:Basic Psychology
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Each day millions of people make multiple decisions. choices have proliferated, increasing the number of decisions people can (and must) make. The diversity of consumer product selection has expanded exponentially. Similar proliferations of alternatives have occurred wit television channels, dating partners, investment options, and in countless other spheres. Has the proliferation of choice uniformly made life easier and better?In this paper, author Investigated whether choices impairs self-control as consumption self-resources with experimental method. The current study has confirmed the self-control consumed self resources, but there were two contradictory findings on whether making choose consume self-resources. On the one hand there were evidences showing that selection consume self-resources by inconsistencies examples , on the other hand there were also evidences indicate that subjects choosing freely and happily did not consume self-resources. In this study, the author assumed that selection consumed self- resources needed for self-control under theory of self-control and limited self-resources models. This study suggested that making choice consume self-resources that selecting choosing is more depleting than merely deliberating about options and more depleting than implementing choices made by someone else, and that anticipating the choice task as enjoyable can reduce the depleting effect for the first choices but not for many choices. Thus, this study provides a reasonable explanation for the current contradictional discovery.
Keywords/Search Tags:choice, self-control, decision making, executive function
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