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Thinking is a difficult habit to break
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Abstract
Self-control is in the eye of the beholder. However, we speak of ”self-control” if a person has come to think conscious thoughts that change the motivational value of stimuli in the outside world. It is claimed that conscious thinking, and not habits bordering on compulsion, is behind self-control.
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- Open Peer Commentary
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- Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue 1: An International Journal of Current Research and Theory with Open Peer Commentary , March 1995 , pp. 138 - 139
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995
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