One evening, at the start of a four-hour train ride at the end of a long day, I found myself wishing I could just close my eyes and be transported home immediately. This got me thinking about how we ...

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This post is in response to Know When to Walk Away By Susan K Perry Ph.D. Consistently choosing immediate reward over delayed gratification is one of compulsive overeaters’ fundamental challenges.

Competing intentions. We all have them; Exercise as we intended, or spend another night as couch potato. A recent study on academic delay of gratification sheds some light on the self-regulatory ...