Fatigue has been defined differently in the literature depending on the field of research. The
inconsistent use of the term fatigue complicated scientific communication, thereby limiting …

Exercising self-control is often difficult, whether declining a drink in order to drive home
safely, passing on the chocolate cake to stay on a diet, or ignoring text messages to finish …

Cognitive control is subjectively costly, suggesting that engagement is modulated in
relationship to incentive state. Dopamine appears to play key roles. In particular, dopamine …

Existing wisdom holds that secrecy is burdensome and fatiguing. However, past research
has conflated secrecy with the kinds of adverse events that are often kept secret. As a result …

The opioid system regulates affective processing, including pain, pleasure, and reward.
Restricting the role of this system to hedonic modulation may be an underestimation …

Self-control describes the processes by which individuals control their habits, desires, and
impulses in the service of long-term goals. Research has identified important components of …

The purpose of this study was to investigate sequential indirect pathways by which self-
control exertion affects resistance exercise performance through fatigue and task self …

The detection of conflict between incompatible impulses, thoughts, and actions is a
ubiquitous source of motivation across theories of goal-directed action. In this overview, we …

Past research has conceptualized secrecy as speech inhibition during social interaction. In
contrast, the current research broadens the understanding of secrecy by conceptualizing it …

To investigate the response to suboptimal outcomes, Verbuggen et al.(Verbruggen F,
Chambers CD, Lawrence NS, McLaren IPL. 2017 Winning and losing: effects on impulsive …