Willpower

accumbens

    Oaten, Megan
    Obama, Barack
    obesity
    social influence on
    see also dieting
    O’Brien, Danny
    “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington” (Tennyson)
    Odysseus, Sirens and
    O’Leary, Susan
    Olson, Cheryl
    online dating services
    opiates
    Oprah
    Oprah Paradox
    orderliness
    other-directedness
    Otto, Annette
    overjustification effect
    overweight
    see also dieting

    pain, chronic
    Palmer, Amanda
    living statue performances of
    PMS of
    Pancake Day
    Parker, Dorothy
    Parkinson’s Law
    Patrick, Vanessa
    Patzer, Aaron
    Paul family
    Paulhus, Delroy
    Peale, Norman Vincent
    peer pressure
    Pentagon
    perfectionism
    performance control
    self-esteem and
    perseverance
    decision fatigue and
    testing of
    personal ads
    personal hygiene
    personality
    personal trainers
    Philippines
    Piaget, Jean
    Pike, Alice
    Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan)
    planning
    flexibility of
    fuzzy vs. fussy
    management
    military
    Zeigarnik effect and
    see also Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
    planning fallacy
    Plutarch
    PMS (premenstrual syndrome)
    beneficial diet for
    physiology of
    poor emotional control in
    poor impulse control in
    “Political Greatness” (Shelley)
    Polivy, Janet
    Pomeranz, Dina
    Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin)
    postponed-pleasure ploy
    posture improvement exercise
    Power of Postitive Thinking, The (Peale)
    Power of Will, The (Haddock)
    precommitment strategies
    for dieting
    primates
    Princeton University
    prisons
    Israeli
    paroles from
    teenagers in
    weight gain in
    women’s
    procrastination
    avoiding task by doing others
    by college students
    in decision making
    gender differences in
    impulsiveness in
    Nothing Alternative to
    perfectionism in
    planning fallacy and
    of pleasure
    positive
    recent increase in
    Project MATCH
    prostitution
    Protestant Reformation
    Prussians
    psychoanalysis
    Psychological Bulletin
    psychology of will, German
    “Public Humiliation Diet”
    puzzles, insoluble

    Quantified Self (QS)
    Quest for Identity, The (Wheelis)
    Quicken software

    radish experiment
    Ramadan
    religion
    agnostic view of
    behavior monitoring in
    benefits of
    congregations of
    discipline of
    fasting in
    longevity increased by
    meditations in
    prayer in
    rituals of
    see also God
    RescueTime software
    resource slack
    rewards for achievement
    in child rearing
    financial
    Riefenstahl, Leni
    Roman Catholic Church
    Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
    romantic novels
    romantic pickiness
    Rubicon model of action phases
    rumination

    San Francisco, Calif.
    Sanghvi, T. J.
    Saturday Night Live
    saver’s remorse
    Scheier, Michael
    Schunk, Dale
    self
    Freud’s energy model of
    information-processing model of
    personal agreements with
    self-awareness
    alcoholism and
    evolution of
    mirror test of
    self-comparison to standards in
    self-regulation helped by
    self-confidence
    self-consciousness
    self-control:
    benefits of
    conscious
    evolution of
    future of
    gender differences in
    genetic factors in
    lack of
    predicate value of
    unconscious operation of
    Self-Control (Brunton)
    self-denial
    self-efficacy
    self-esteem
    benefits of
    high, in young children
    mutual admiration exercises for
    narcissism vs.
    performance and
    self-help
    Self-Help (Smiles)
    self-indulgence
    selfishness
    self-quantification
    self-regulation
    self-regulation technology
    self-trust
    Seligman, Martin
    sexual and romantic behavior
    hot-cold empathy gap and
    romantic pickiness in
    of self-destructing politicians
    Shakespeare, William
    shopping
    decision fatigue in
    in supermarkets
    Shrove Tuesday
    Siddhartha (Hesse)
    Simeon Stylites, Saint
    single-parent homes
    Skinner, B. F.
    slave trade
    sleep
    sleep deprivation
    of Blaine
    slovenliness
    Smalley, Stuart
    Smelser, Neil
    Smiles, Samuel
    smoking
    quitting
    social acceptance
    social neuroscience
    social psychology
    social support
    Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    song lyrics, narcissistic
    speech habits, changing of
    speed-dating events
    spendthrifts
    Spitzer, Eliot
    stamina
    power vs.
    Stanford University
    Stanley, Henry Hope
    Stanley, Henry Morton
    Africans well treated by
    background of
    as Bula Matari, “Breaker of Rocks”
    childhood regimen self-imposed by
    contemporaries’ praise of
    diary kept by
    “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” invented by
    ending slave trade as “sacred task” of
    fantasy family created by
    fiancée of
    focus on lofty thoughts maintained by
    habits of
    hardships endured by
    harsh reputation acquired by
    hot-cold empathy gap and
    on Lady