"People have limited self-control and insufficient energy, inducing some people to not even try to improve their lot," they write.
Some recommend policies that pursue values that an intended beneficiary already, at least implicitly, holds but cannot realize because of limited capacities, limited resources or limited self-control.
Under such a framework, the overall effectiveness of policies designed to help individuals make beneficial choices in a specific domain could be in practice, adversely affected by limited self-control capacities.
As combined evidence, these findings are consistent with an economic model of limited self-control in which students choose how to allocate their self-control between academic activities and eating activities.
If I faltered and ate a roll at lunch, I'd become incapacitated by self-loathing and disgust over my limited self-control.
Be aware of your limits, and develop self control in order to avoid hindering your progress.
Limits to self-control represent another likely behavioral barrier to creating incentives to return to work in unemployment compensation programs.
This common misconception formed part of these women's self-talk which acted to limit their self-control of eating and activity during pregnancy.
Self control is pushed to its most fragile limits, but it's a frantic, delicious circus.
If you have self control, which I'm sure most of you do, it's easy to limit the amount of bad food you consume.
This is hard for anyone, whatever their income: we all have limited reserves of self-control, and attention and other psychic resources … Low-income parents … face a tax on their psychic resources.
