Losing Control How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation Baumeister Heatherton

Losing ControlHow and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation\nAuthor(s): Roy F. Baumeister, Todd F. Heatherton, Dianne M. Tice\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Academic Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780120831401, 978-0120831401\nSynopsis\nSelf-regulation refers to the self's ability to control its own thoughts, emotions, and actions. Through self-regulation, we consciously control how much we eat, whether we give in to impulse, task performance, obsessive thoughts, and even the extent to which we allow ourselves recognition of our emotions. This work provides a synthesis and overview of recent and long-standing research findings of what is known of the successes and failures of self-regulation. People the world over suffer from the inability to control their finances, their weight, their emotions, their craving for drugs, their sexual impulses, and more. The United States in particular is regarded by some observers as a society addicted to ""