Dva články o změnách strategií myšlení a souvislosti se sebeovládáním.
The costs of changing your mindset
…The measures of self-control used later involved things like maintaining physical exertion, or keeping a straight face while watching a funny video. In each study, people who had to switch between mindsets led to worse performance on the later self-control task compared those who could maintain a single mindset.
This work suggests that there is a mental consequence to hard thinking. When you spend a day working on hard problems you are likely to have to switch the strategies you use many times. Each of those switches carries a cost with it. You are taxing a resource that may be limited. Over time, your ability to switch strategies itself may be affected, because you will have tapped out that resource…
Celý článek: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201103/the-costs-changing-your-mindset
People can exercise only so much self-control
People who overtax their self-control may find they have less in reserve for later, suggests an intriguing new study that may have implications for people trying to lose weight or make other behavioral changes.
But lack of sleep does not appear to affect self-control, say the researchers, whose study of 58 subjects is in the March issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/2011-03-23-selfcontrol23_ST_N.htm