{"id":3871,"date":"2010-03-26T02:58:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2010-03-26T02:58:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:58:26","slug":"learned-how-to-increase-your-self-control-without-really-trying-psyblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/learned-how-to-increase-your-self-control-without-really-trying-psyblog\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned :: How to Increase Your Self-Control Without Really Trying &#124; PsyBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Automatic, unconscious self-control<\/h3>\n<p>The results showed that, when participants were thinking concretely,  they tended to unconsciously see candy bars in a positive light and  apples in a negative light. But this was reversed when participants were  thinking abstractly. Just as predicted, abstract thinking automatically  made people unconsciously think of candy bars as the devil&#8217;s own food.<br \/>\nTo back this up they asked participants in the two conditions whether  they would like an apple or a candy bar, right now. They found that  when participants were thinking in a concrete low-level way, they chose  the apple over the candy bar only 50% of the time. But when they were  thinking abstractly this percentage shot up to 76%. Not bad for such a  simple manipulation.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2010\/03\/how-to-increase-your-self-control-without-really-trying.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PsychologyBlog+%28PsyBlog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">How to Increase Your Self-Control Without Really Trying | PsyBlog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic, unconscious self-control The results showed that, when participants were thinking concretely, they tended to unconsciously see candy bars in a positive light and apples in a negative light. But this was reversed when participants were thinking abstractly. Just as predicted, abstract thinking automatically made people unconsciously think of candy bars as the devil&#8217;s own &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/learned-how-to-increase-your-self-control-without-really-trying-psyblog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learned :: How to Increase Your Self-Control Without Really Trying &#124; PsyBlog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,73,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today","category-psychology","category-reposts","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}