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Toronto Laboratory for Social Neuroscience


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Toronto Laboratory for Social Neuroscience


What are the emotional foundations of self-control and why does it seem limited?

The Toronto Laboratory for Social Neuroscience uses methods borrowed from neuroscience, cognitive science, physiology, and the behavioural sciences to understand and explain social behaviour, including questions about the nature of self-control, which is the central focus of the lab.

 
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About Michael


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About Michael


Michael Inzlicht is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, where he is also cross-appointed as a Professor in the Rotman School of Management. He has studied prejudice, academic performance, and religion, but his most recent research is focused on the topic of self-control.

 
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Publications


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Publications


Recent Publications

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in press, journal-article religion, Ritual Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article religion, Ritual Michael Inzlicht Comment
The psychology of rituals: An integrative review and process-based framework [PDF]
in press, journal-article religion, Ritual Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article religion, Ritual Michael Inzlicht Comment

Hobson, N.M., Schroeder, J., Risen, J.L., Xygalatas, D., & Inzlicht, M. (in press). Personality and Social Psychology Review.

in press, journal-article religion, Ritual Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article religion, Ritual Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article self-control, value-based choice, decision making, neuroscience Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article self-control, value-based choice, decision making, neuroscience Michael Inzlicht Comment
Self-control as value-based choice [PDF]
in press, journal-article self-control, value-based choice, decision making, neuroscience Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article self-control, value-based choice, decision making, neuroscience Michael Inzlicht Comment

Berkman, E.T., Hutcherson, C.A., Livingston, J.L., Kahn, L.E., & Inzlicht, M. (in press). Current Directions in Psychological Science.

in press, journal-article self-control, value-based choice, decision making, neuroscience Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article self-control, value-based choice, decision making, neuroscience Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article self-regulation, self-control, ego depletion, experience sampling, goals Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article self-regulation, self-control, ego depletion, experience sampling, goals Michael Inzlicht Comment
What's so great about self-control? Examining the importance of effortful self-control and temptation in predicting real-life depletion and goal attainment [PDF]
in press, journal-article self-regulation, self-control, ego depletion, experience sampling, goals Michael Inzlicht Comment
in press, journal-article self-regulation, self-control, ego depletion, experience sampling, goals Michael Inzlicht Comment

Milyavskaya, M., & Inzlicht, M. (in press). Social Psychological and Personality Science

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in press, journal-article self-regulation, self-control, ego depletion, experience sampling, goals Michael Inzlicht Comment

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People work less hard for others
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People work less hard for others
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Michael Inzlicht Comment

Commenting in the News and Views section of Nature Human Behaviour, Michael Inzlicht and Cendri A. Hutcherson comment on a brilliant new paper on prosocial apathy, noting its many strengths, but also areas for future inquiry.

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Does Empathy have limits?
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Michael Inzlicht Comment
Does Empathy have limits?
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Michael Inzlicht Comment

In an essay published in the Conversation, Daryl Cameron, Michael Inzlicht, and William Cunningham discuss the nature of empathy, specifically asking if empathy has limits. In the essay, which is part book review of Paul Bloom's Against Empathy, Michael and his co-authors suggest that limits to empathy are more apparent than real; these apparent limits are not built into empathy itself, but reflect the choices we make. These so-called limits, in other words, result from general trade-offs that people make as they balance some goals against others.

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Michael Inzlicht Comment
Have we been thinking about willpower the wrong way for 30 years?
Michael Inzlicht Comment
Michael Inzlicht Comment
Have we been thinking about willpower the wrong way for 30 years?
Michael Inzlicht Comment
Michael Inzlicht Comment

Harvard Business Review discusses the changing landscape of research on self-control, including covering work by Michael Inzlicht, who suggests that self-control is not similar to a fuel tank that becomes emptied with use. Instead, Michael suggests that self-control is better understood as a motivational construct, with features that make it resemble an emotion. 

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Michael Inzlicht

Department of Psychology
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
Canada

Phone: 416-208-4826
Fax: 416-287-7642
Email: michael.inzlicht@utoronto.ca

 

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