Resisting the Power of Temptations
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- 1 May 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 1104 (1), 123-134
- https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1390.004
Abstract
Imagine you are overweight and you spot your favorite pastry in the storefront of a bakery. How do you manage to resist this temptation? Or to give other examples, how do you manage to restrain yourself from overspending or succumbing to sexual temptations? The present article summarizes two recent studies stressing the fundamental importance of inhibition in the process of decision-making. Based on the results of these studies, we dare to claim that the capacity to resist temptation depends on the activity level of the right prefrontal cortexKeywords
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