Running away from the marshmallow: the relevance of behaviour settings for a situated science of self-control

Kalis, Annemarie; Pascoe, Josephine; Segundo Ortin, Miguel

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Running away from the marshmallow: the relevance of behaviour settings for a situated science of self-control

dc.contributor.author	Kalis, Annemarie
dc.contributor.author	Pascoe, Josephine
dc.contributor.author	Segundo Ortin, Miguel
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-09-03T06:59:13Z
dc.date.available	2025-09-03T06:59:13Z
dc.date.issued	2024-08-07
dc.description	© 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	es
dc.description.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.	es
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dc.identifier.citation	Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 379 nº 1908
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0289
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0962-8436
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1471-2970
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/158038
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	The Royal Society	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0289	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Atribución 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.title	Running away from the marshmallow: the relevance of behaviour settings for a situated science of self-control	es
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