A recent study showed a connection between low self-control and impulse buying as influenced by social media and targeted advertising. Poor self-control was an explanatory factor for having a positive ...

Online shopping and digital payment options have made shopping easier and more enjoyable—money can be spent almost unnoticeably. These factors predispose people to impulse purchases. A lack of ...

Impulse control, or self-regulation, serves a number of purposes. On a personal level, it keeps us out of trouble. On a larger scale, it prevents the social fabric from unraveling any more than it’s ...

Managing impulses has always been challenging but now it is harder than perhaps ever before. Why? I'm still amazed that in the two years that I've been blogging for Psychology Today the post that ...

Self-control has long been regarded as one of the strongest predictors of success. Most of us can picture that colleague who never misses a deadline, volunteers for extra projects and keeps everything ...

If you can consistently resist these everyday temptations, your self-control is much stronger than most people around you.