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Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited

2014· review· en· 934 citations· W2026173079 on OpenAlex· 10.1016/j.tics.2013.12.009

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.
Canadian funderA Canadian agency funded it. The work may carry no Canadian affiliation at all.

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.409
GPT teacher head0.549
Teacher spread
0.141 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

No abstract. This is not a gap in this database — OpenAlex has none either. 23.3% of the frame is in this state, and the screen finds HALF as much metaresearch here, so the absence is a measured bias rather than a missing field.

The record

Venue
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Topic
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Field
Psychology
Canadian institutions
University of Toronto
Funders
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Keywords
Ego depletionSelf-controlPsychologyControl (management)Resource (disambiguation)CognitionTask (project management)Cognitive psychologyId, ego and super-egoEmpirical researchCognitive resource theoryMoment (physics)Social psychologyEmpirical evidenceCognitive scienceComputer scienceEpistemologyEconomicsArtificial intelligenceNeuroscience
Has abstract in OpenAlex
no