What is self-control, when do you need it, and how do you get it? In this episode, Brian and Tania talk amygdala hijacking, road rage, delay of gratification, and willpower hacking. Collect new self-control tools, and see what happens when our hosts attempt to re-create the famous Marshmallow Test.

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Further Reading:

• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (1995)
• Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification by Mischel, Ebbesen, and Zeiss (1972)
• Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later by Casey et al. (2011)
• Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A conceptual replication investigating links between early delay of gratification and later outcomes by Watts, Duncan, and Quan (2018)
• Rational snacking: Young children's decision-making on the marshamllow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability by Kidd, Palmeri, and Aslin (2013)
• Does self-control improve with practice? Evidence from a six-week training program by Miles et. al (2016)
• Everyday temptations: an experience sampling study of desire, conflict, and self-control by Hofmann, Baumeister, Förster, and Vohs (2012)
• Limbic activity modulation guided by functional magnetic resonance imaging-inspired electroencephalography improves implicit emotion regulation by Keynan et. al (2016)
• Holding the Hunger Games hostage at the gym: an evaluation of temptation bundling by Milkman, Minson, and Volpp (2013)
• “I Don’t” versus “I Can’t”: When empowered refusal motivates goal-directed behavior by Patrick and Hagtvedt (2012)
• When cheating would make you a cheater: Implicating the self prevents unethical behavior by Bryan, Adams, and Monin
• I forgive myself, now I can study: How self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination by Wohl, Pychyl, and Bennett (2010)

Produced by Scarlet Moon Things
Research by Kim Keating
Music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings