Loss of Self-Control in Intertemporal Choice May Be Attributable to Logarithmic Time-Perception

AbstractDelay-discounting studies in neuroscience, psychology, and economics have been mostly focused on concepts of self-control, reward evaluation, and discounting. Another important relationship to consider is the link between intertemporal choice and time perception. We presented 50 college students with timing tasks on the range of seconds to minutes and intertemporal-choice tasks on both the time-scale of seconds and of days. We hypothesized that individual differences in time perception would influence decisions about short experienced delays but not long delays. While we found some evidence that individual differences in internal clock speed account for some unexplained variance between choices across time-horizons, overall our findings suggest a nominal contribution of the altered sense of time in intertemporal choice.

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Association of the altered sense of time in the seconds-to-minute range with intertemporal choices across time-horizons.

10.31234/osf.io/ut5ms ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Evgeniya Lukinova ◽

Jeffrey C Erlich

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Time Perception ◽

Intertemporal Choice ◽

Internal Clock ◽

Self Control ◽

Time Horizons ◽

Important Relationship ◽

Psychology And Economics ◽

Sense Of Time ◽

Choice Tasks

Delay-discounting studies in neuroscience, psychology, and economics have been mostly focused on concepts of self-control, reward evaluation, and discounting. Another important relationship to consider is the link between intertemporal choice and time perception. We presented 50 college students with timing exercises on the range of seconds to minutes and intertemporal-choice tasks on both the time-scale of seconds and of days. We hypothesized that individual differences in time perception would influence decisions about short experienced delays but not long delays. While we found some evidence that individual differences in internal clock speed account for some unexplained variance between choices across time-horizons, overall our findings suggest a nominal contribution of the altered sense of time in intertemporal choice.

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Carry on or giving in: The role of (implicit) cognition in the maintenance or loss of self-control

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e524332011-077 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

H. Alberts ◽

C. Martijn

Keyword(s):

Implicit Cognition ◽

Self Control ◽

Loss Of Self

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Ego Depletion

The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190666453.013.7 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 111-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mark Muraven ◽

Jacek Buczny ◽

Kyle F. Law

Keyword(s):

Limited Resource ◽

Ego Depletion ◽

Self Control ◽

Negative Outcomes ◽

Ego Strength ◽

Loss Of Self ◽

Comprehensive Theory ◽

Depletion Effect

Self-control all too often fails. Despite people’s best intentions and considerable negative outcomes, people often find themselves at the losing end of resisting temptation, combating urges, and changing their behavior. One reason for these failures may be that exerting self-control depletes a limited resource (ego depletion) that is necessary for the success of self-control. Hence, after exerting self-control, individuals are less able resist temptations, fight urges, or stop a behavior that results in a loss of self-control. This chapter reviews the evidence for this theory in a wide variety of domains and examines what behaviors appear to deplete ego strength and how depletion affects behavior. A comprehensive theory that examines how depletion operates is put forth and used to examine some factors that might moderate the depletion effect.

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Recognising the Role of the Emotion of Fear in Offences and Defences

The Journal of Criminal Law ◽

10.1177/0022018319877784 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 83 (6) ◽

pp. 450-472

Author(s):

Susan SM Edwards

Keyword(s):

Criminal Responsibility ◽

Self Control ◽

Mens Rea ◽

Emotional States ◽

Loss Of Self ◽

Human Conduct ◽

Privileged Status ◽

Actus Reus ◽

Male Experience

Anger, its part in human conduct and in crime commission has been much discussed and accorded a privileged status within the law, while the role of fear has been less considered. Notwithstanding, fear and related emotional states have received some recognition as intrinsic elements of the perpetrator’s object integral to the actus reus of certain offences and relevant to the defendant’s mens rea of some defences. The harm caused by deliberately or negligently instilling fear in another is inconsistently considered in law as is its impact on criminal responsibility and mens rea. Fear has been recently acknowledged as a permissible cause of loss of self-control in a partial defence to murder (Coroners and Justice Act 2009 s 55(3)). It remains a contested emotion and as with anger the male experience of what circumstances trigger fear predominates.

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