Sentence examples for less self control from inspiring English sources

Alexander Shalom, policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in New Jersey, said that developments in neuroscience had reinforced the idea that juveniles had less risk perception, less foresight, less self control than adults.

"Someone who drinks earlier in the day hasn't necessarily got less self control," he tells me.

Each generation has less self-control and patience than the one before.

Their brains work differently to those of adults: they are more susceptible to peer pressure and have less self-control.

Compared to middle-class people, the poor have less self-control and are quicker to turn to instant gratification.

Are you inclined to believe that people who exhibit less self-control as children are more likely to abuse drugs, suffer from obesity or experience stressful relationships as adults?

Chief Justice Roberts said he worried about the effect that cameras would have on lawyers and, perhaps more important, on the justices, who may have less self-control than their counterparts abroad.

In findings from a long-term study of 1,000 babies born in 1972 in a New Zealand town, Ms. Moffitt and her colleagues recently reported that the less self-control a child displayed at 3 years of age, the more likely he or she was to commit a crime more than 30 years later.

Students predicted media use to result in lower negative affect and less self-control.

Further, customers with more self-control feel less satiated after repeated dining experiences than customers with less self-control.

Media multitasking, the concurrent use of multiple media forms, has been shown to be related to greater self-reported impulsivity and less self-control.