Milyavskaya, M., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 603-611.
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Berkman, E.T., Hutcherson, C.A., Livingston, J.L., Kahn, L.E., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 422-428.
Legault, L., Weinstein, N., Mitchell, J., Inzlicht, M., Pyke, K., Upal, A. (2017). Journal of Personality, 85, 687-701.
Randles, D., Harlow, I., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). PLoS One, 12, e0182980
Elkins-Brown, N., Saunders, B., He, F., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). Psychophysiology, 54, 1559-1573.
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Saunders, B., Lin, H., Milyavskaya, M., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). International Journal of Psychophysiology, 119, 31-40.
Hobson, N.M., Gino, F., Norton, M.I., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). Psychological Science, 28, 733-750.
Inzlicht, M., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2017). Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0148.
Hobson, N.M., Bonk, D., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). PeerJ, 5, e3363.
Cameron, C.D., Payne, B.K., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Scheffer, J.A., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). Cognition, 158, 224-241.
Elkins-Brown, N, Teper, R., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). In J.C. Karremans & E.K. Papies (Eds.), Mindfulness in Social Psychology (pp. 65-78). New York: Psychology Press.
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It’s probably all too familiar. Against your best intentions, you find yourself reaching for a late-night snack again. You snap at a colleague who didn’t really say anything wrong. You find excuses so that your daily run becomes a biweekly one. You’re convinced you don’t want to behave that way anymore, but here you are, doing it again. Psychologist Michael Inzlicht of the University of Toronto has long been fascinated by how we keep ourselves in check — or don’t — whether you call that willpower, self-control or something else.
But sometimes—whether it’s running a marathon, climbing a mountain, or assembling furniture—we willingly choose difficulty over ease. Michael Inzlicht, a psychologist at the University of Toronto, calls this the effort paradox. While we often eschew hard work, other times we value it, viewing things as more rewarding if we have to work for them. We hike mountains even though we could see the same view by gondola and willingly spend more on furniture we put together than on preassembled pieces. “Both things seem to exist at once: we avoid effort, we also seem to like it,” says Inzlicht.
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- Joshua Aronson, New York University
- Avi Ben-Zeev, San Francisco State University
- Elliot Berkman, University of Oregon
- Kirk Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Daryl Cameron, Penn State University
- Belle Derks, Utrecht University
- Jennifer Gutsell, Brandeis University
- Greg Hajcak, Florida State University
- Eddie Harmon-Jones, University of New South Wales
- Jacob Hirsh, University of Toronto
- Cendri Hutcherson, University of Toronto
- Sonia Kang, University of Toronto
- Michael Larson, Brigham Young University
- Lisa Legault, Clarkson University
- Ian McGregor, University of Waterloo
- Marina Milyavskaya, Carleton University
- Sukhvinder Obhi, McMaster University
- Liz Page-Gould, University of Toronto
- Travis Proulx, Cardiff University
- Blair Saunders, University of Dundee
- Brandon Schmeichel, Texas A&M University
- Zindel Segal, University of Toronto
- Alexa Tullett, University of Alabama
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The struggle for self-control is real, and one many of us are familiar with - but is 'willpower' actually a myth? Psychology professor Michael Inzlicht has long been intrigued by how we curb our less desirable behaviours, and what it is that unites people with 'high self-control'. His research at the University of Toronto's Work and Play Lab also seeks to understand our complicated relationship with effort and empathy - and whether so-called 'empathetic AI' has a place in our future.
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