The present investigation began with the conjecture that people may do better by saying "some other time" instead of "no, not ever" in response to temptations. Drawing from learning theories, we hypothesized that people interpret unspecific postponement ("I can have it some other time") as a signal that they do not strongly value the postponed temptation. In this way, unspecific postponement ma...

We predicted that the perceived likelihood of acquiring a hoped-for thin self would mediate perfectionistic strivings on dietary restraint, and that the perceived likelihood of acquiring a feared fat self would mediate perfectionistic concerns on dietary restraint. We also predicted that the mediation pathway from perfectionistic concerns to dietary restraint would have a greater impact than th...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship among BMI, smoking consumption, dietary restraint, smoking to control weight, physical self-perception and self-esteem in young female adolescents. METHODS 702 grade 9 students (14-15 yrs old) completed self-reported validated measures in classroom settings. RESULTS 26.7% of students had smoked in the last 30 days. Cigarette consumption was low with...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated how the precursors of interpersonal self-efficacy and weight/shape self-efficacy would interact in the face of interpersonal stress to prospectively predict dietary restraint. Three models were explored, each with a different type of interpersonal stress: stress from same sex friendships, opposite sex friendships, or romantic relationships. METHOD At Time 1 (...

Injured neurons pump up the volume A wounded axon sends out a long-distance distress signal. HuntworkRodriguez et al. uncovered a positive feedback loop that might amplify the alarm and help it spread along the axon. A damaged axon dispatches an alert to the cell body, which fi res up genes that— depending on the neuron’s location—trigger healing or cause the axon to degenerate and the cell to ...