“‘Willpower’ Tag”,2019-09-29 (depression, mental energy, pain)⁠:

Bibliography for tag psychology/willpower, most recent first: 8 related tags, 60 annotations, & 21 links (parent).

• See Also
• Gwern
  • “The Diamond Earrings”, Gwern2023
  • “Evolution As Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”, Gwern2018
  • “On Having Enough Socks”, Gwern2017
  • “The Algernon Argument”, Gwern2010
  • “On Really Trying”, Gwern2009
• Links
  • “This Movie Is Why I’m Alive: How Ratatouille Showed Me the Beauty of the World That Wished to Kill Me”, Nikmand2024
  • “Entrepreneurship Changed the Way I Think”, Handmer2024
  • “Delay of Gratification and Adult Outcomes: The Marshmallow Test Does Not Reliably Predict Adult Functioning”, Sperber et al 2024
  • “The Unpleasantness of Thinking: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association Between Mental Effort and Negative Affect”, David et al 2024
  • “Reflections on 98.css (Windows 98 GUI Clone) [Burnout]”, Scales2024
  • “So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself: What I Found in the Mire § The Try-Harder Fallacy”, Mastroianni2024
  • “The Ultra-Marathoner Racing Against the Course, and Himself: Nickademus De La Rosa, an Ultrarunning Prodigy Who Has Run across Death Valley and the Alps, Is Taking a Pause from the Sport As He Copes With Borderline Personality Disorder”, Byerly2023
  • “Too Much Commitment? An Online Experiment With Tempting YouTube Content”, Ek & Samahita2023
  • “Brandon Sanderson Is Your God: He’s the Biggest Fantasy Writer in the World. He’s Also Very Mormon. These Things Are Profoundly Related”, Kehe2023
  • “Two-Year Effect of Semaglutide 2.4 Mg on Control of Eating in Adults With Overweight/obesity: STEP 5”, Wharton et al 2023
  • “Aboulomania, a Mental Disorder Characterized by Pathological Indecisiveness”, Bistas & Tabet2023
  • “A Neuro-Metabolic Account of Why Daylong Cognitive Work Alters the Control of Economic Decisions”, Wiehler et al 2022
  • “Does Depletion Have a Bright Side? Self-Regulation Exertion Heightens Creative Engagement”, Ho et al 2021
  • “In the Running”, Deren et al 2021
  • “A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect”, Vohs et al 2021
  • “Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression From an Evolutionary Perspective”, Hollon et al 2021
  • “The Temporal Dynamics of Opportunity Costs: A Normative Account of Cognitive Fatigue and Boredom”, Agrawal et al 2020
  • “Dopamine Promotes Cognitive Effort by Biasing the Benefits versus Costs of Cognitive Work”, Westbrook et al 2020
  • “What Intellectual Progress Did I Make In The 2010s?”, Alexander2020
  • “Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm”, Lin et al 2020
  • “How To Be Successful”, Altman2019
  • “Let There Be Variance: Individual Differences in Consecutive Self-Control in a Laboratory Setting and Daily Life”, Wenzel et al 2019
  • “Ego Depletion May Disappear by 2020”, Vadillo2019
  • “Why Has Evolution Not Selected for Perfect Self-Control?”, Hayden2018
  • “Can Behavioral Tools Improve Online Student Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from a Massive Open Online Course”, Patterson2018
  • “Mental Fatigue Impairs Endurance Performance: A Physiological Explanation”, Martin et al 2018
  • “Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Conceptual Replication Investigating Links Between Early Delay of Gratification and Later Outcomes”, Watts et al 2018
  • “Having a Creative Day: Understanding Entrepreneurs’ Daily Idea Generation through a Recovery Lens”, Weinberger et al 2018
  • “Testosterone Facilitates the Sense of Agency”, Westhuizen et al 2017
  • “Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort”, Shenhav et al 2017
  • “Blood Sugar Level Follows Perceived Time rather than Actual Time in People With Type 2 Diabetes”, Park et al 2016
  • “The Mechanics of Human Achievement”, Duckworth et al 2015
  • “Genetic Relations among Procrastination, Impulsivity, and Goal-Management Ability: Implications for the Evolutionary Origin of Procrastination”, Gustavson et al 2014
  • “An Opportunity Cost Model of Subjective Effort and Task Performance”, Kurzban et al 2013
  • “Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion That Regulates the Exercise Behavior to Ensure the Protection of Whole Body Homeostasis”, Noakes2012
  • “Why Aren’t We Smarter Already: Evolutionary Trade-Offs and Cognitive Enhancements”, Hills & Hertwig2011
  • “A Viral Infection of the Mind? The Curious Case of Encephalitis Lethargica”, Foley2011
  • “The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research”, Schwartz2008
  • “Impulsivity and the Self-Defeating Behavior of Narcissists”, Vazire & Funder2006
  • “That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger”
  • “Shop Class As Soulcraft: The Case for the Manual Trades”, Crawford2006
  • “Adapted to Flee Famine: Adding an Evolutionary Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa”, Guisinger2003
  • “Structured Procrastination”, Perry1996
  • “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart”, Wallace1994
  • “On Finished and Unfinished Tasks [Über Das Behalten Von Erledigten Und Unerledigten Handlungen / On The Recall of Finished and Unfinished Tasks]”, Zeigarnik1927
  • “Why Doesn’t Advice Work?”
  • The Energies of Men
  • “Eyes Wide Shut or Eyes Wide Open?”
  • “Replicability Report No. 1: Is Ego-Depletion a Replicable Effect?”
  • “How To Know When It’s Time To Go”
  • “Beeminder”
  • “The Market for Less”
  • “The Diction of Social Desirability Bias”
  • “Humans Are Not Automatically Strategic”
  • “How to Beat Procrastination”
  • “Share Your Anti-Akrasia Tricks”
  • “Poll Results: LW Probably Doesn’t Cause Akrasia”
  • “Akrasia Tactics Review”
  • “Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?”
  • “Glucose Is Not Willpower Fuel: Is the Muscle Model of Self-Control Less Then a Metaphor?”
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