{"id":5854,"date":"2017-09-27T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2017-09-27T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:38:31","slug":"your-self-control-doesnt-get-worse-later-in-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/your-self-control-doesnt-get-worse-later-in-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Your self-control doesn&#8217;t get worse later in the day <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the day goes on, our self-control wears off &#8211; according to one of the theories of cognitive function. But new research challenges this view, proposing that self-control is not dependent on the time of day. To investigate this, researchers observed two groups of students over separate 17-week intervals with 24-hour coverage, as they engaged in voluntary learning and self-testing using an online program. From current models of self-control, results should have shown increasing depletion throughout the day, and that this should translate into less motivation to complete learning sessions. The findings did show a decrease in performance after an hour of concentrating on a single task, but contrary to the current self-control models, the time of day at which the task was started did not affect initial performance. This supports previous findings that suggest that motivation in single-task performance decreases with time, but counters theories of diminishing self-control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Randles , Iain Harlow, Michael Inzlicht<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Randles, Social Neuroscience Lab, University of Toronto, ON, Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dan.randles@utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\">dan.randles@utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0182980\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>PLOS One<\/em> on September 20, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the day goes on, our self-control wears off &#8211; according to one of the theories of cognitive function. But new research challenges this view, proposing that self-control is not dependent on the time of day. To investigate this, researchers observed two groups of students over separate 17-week intervals with 24-hour coverage, as they engaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3171,1508,3172],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-motivation","tag-psychology","tag-self-control"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/alarm-clock-1845269_640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1wq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}