See Elliot’s latest blog post on The Motivated Brain over at Psychology Today:
…Self-control is a resource, but a renewable, psychological one. We’ve known for a long time that goals that are motivated from within—for reasons that are personally important to us—are more likely to succeed than those that are motivated from without. … Succeeding at self-control is more about the desire rather than the technical skill to do so. We know how to stop eating in a literal sense; we just don’t know how to think about overeating in a way that motivates us to stop.
About Elliot Berkman
Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon
Director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab
Associate Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience
Do we overeat because of poor self-control?
See Elliot’s latest blog post on The Motivated Brain over at Psychology Today:
About Elliot Berkman
Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon Director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab Associate Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience