Precommitment: A Way around Temptation
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Precommitment: A Way around Temptation
Impulsivity means we want things that make us feel good now, and we want to postpone things that take effort. This means that what we want changes— today we want to do the more difficult thing tomorrow, but tomorrow, we will want to take the easy option and will no longer want to do the thing that takes effort. One potential solution to impulsivity is something called precommitment, where we se...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers for Young Minds
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2296-6846
DOI: 10.3389/frym.2017.00026