Beliefs About Willpower Moderate The Effect of Previous Day Demands on Next Day’s Expectations and Effective Goal Striving

Research suggests that beliefs about willpower affect self-regulation following previous self-regulatory demands (Job, Dweck, & Walton, 2010). Some people believe that their willpower is limited, meaning that after a demanding task it needs to be replenished (limited theory). By contrast, others...

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Main Authors: Katharina eBernecker, Veronika eJob
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01496/full