Publication: Running away from the marshmallow: the relevance of behaviour settings for a situated science of self-control
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Kalis, Annemarie ; Pascoe, Josephine ; Segundo Ortin, Miguel
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The Royal Society
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https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0289
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© 2024, The Author(s). This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This document is the submitted version of a published Work that appeared in final form in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0289
Abstract
The behavior settings approach was introduced as a means to study the variability of human beings’ behavior outside the lab. More recently it has been argued that it also provides a fruitful avenue for developing situated accounts of cognition. This paper will provide a proof of concept for the latter suggestion, focusing on the science of self-control. Self-control is the ability of individuals to pursue goals they value in the face of conflicting motivations. The hypothesis we bring forward is that this ability should be understood as a set of skills by which individuals modulate their relation to their environment, more specifically the behavior settings they inhabit. With this conception of self-control in hand, we will take a critical look at well-known experiments involving delayed gratification tasks and propose concrete suggestions on how to improve them. This will bring us to the conclusion that the behavior settings framework might have a crucial role to play in developing a situated science of self-control.
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Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 379 nº 1908
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