Does Self-Control Training Improve Self-Control? A Meta-Analysis

• Published in: Perspectives on psychological science Vol. 12; no. 6; pp. 1077 - 1099
• Main Authors: Friese, Malte, Frankenbach, Julius, Job, Veronika, Loschelder, David D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.11.2017; SAGE Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Bias; Confidence intervals; Humans; Inactive; Learning; Meta-analysis; Models, Psychological; Self control; meta-analysis; publication bias; intervention; self-control training; robust variance estimation

Self-control is positively associated with a host of beneficial outcomes. Therefore, psychological interventions that reliably improve self-control are of great societal value. A prominent idea suggests that training self-control by repeatedly overriding dominant responses should lead to broad impro...