Self-Control: How to Help Your Seven-Year-Old Make Responsible Choices Self-Control: How to Help Your Seven-Year-Old Make Responsible Choices Emotions influence behavior. Part of growing up is ...

We have many avenues to distract us from our goals. Whether it is social media, the latest celebrity gossip or the phones in our pockets, modern society has built engaging systems for our ...

Insufficient self-control schema, outlined originally by Jeffrey Young, is the experience of states of impulsiveness, usually related to behaviors such as disordered eating, substance use, excessive ...

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits. By Christina Caron We tend to respect and even idolize ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. In our never-ending search for happiness, researchers have ...

Maybe you’ve heard of the famous “marshmallow test” experiment. In this classic study, Stanford researchers brought young children into a room and offered them a tough choice. Eat one delicious ...

Researchers have a new explanation for why we experience the "happiness paradox"—a phenomenon wherein trying to make ourselves happier actually makes us less happy. Studies have documented the paradox ...

These are comments I might get when people learn about my lifestyle. I’m one of those annoying people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise five times a week, save a portion of their salary, ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...