Another way to think of self-control, perhaps the most familiar, is delayed gratification -- resisting immediate temptation to wait for a greater reward later on.
Night by night, Scheherazade (Warner uses the more correct but less familiar Shahrazad) delays the execution ordered for her by an insanely jealous royal husband.
Political novelists would be challenged by the conspiracy-minded narratives emerging in parts of the world already familiar with delayed vote counts, vote-rigging charges, influence peddling and struggles between family dynasties.
We are all used to bureaucratic processes and familiar with delays in communication.
While our older generations are familiar with delayed gratification, behavioral discipline, financial constraint, and cultivating realistic expectations, our younger generations have not been taught these values.
Compared to His homozygotes, Tyr carriers exhibited a diminished hippocampal response to novel stimuli and a higher tendency to judge novel stimuli as familiar during delayed recognition.
It has become an agonizingly familiar formula for delays and frustration: high winds, rain and holiday crowds.
Such familiar notions as delayed gratification, "the basics", or even "right answers", are all incapacitating myths which Langer explodes one by one.
Normal animals are able to discriminate novel from familiar objects with delays of 24 hr and longer (e.g., Nelson, Thur, Marsden, & Cassaday, 2010b), and mPFC-lesioned animals have been shown to distinguish between a novel and familiar object with delays of up to 3 hr (Barker et al., 2007; Barker & Warburton, 2011).
He left Time magazine last April to work for the Times, and that transfer creates a kind of familiar bureaucratic opportunity for delay.
