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It's been two years since I finished reading this book. I remember that it was very comprehensive. However, the book is in dire need of an update.
- A registered replication report (multi-site randomized controlled experiment) found that the ego depletion descriptions of Chapter 3 are dubious.
- The Marshmellow test described in Chapter 7 has been repeated in a study with a sample size ten times as large as the original study, and the conclusions didn't replicate.
- Wenzlaff and Bates' alternative concentration strategy should be included in Chapter 9 as their work qualifies some potential misunderstanding with suppression research. To the author's credit, she does mention a similar idea ("Turn your 'I won't' into 'I will'"), but one that is significantly weaker in my view (i.e., substitution with a similar but slightly more beneficial task and reframing/embellishment of the challenge).
Additionally, while the author highlights interventions in every chapter that have been empirically supported (cited at the end of the book), I'm not convinced that these methods are very powerful, however - especially for people who struggle significantly with self-regulation and/or impulsiveness. I don't entirely blame the author for that. Research in this area has been lacking. I view the book mostly as a well-written and comprehensive survey, albeit outdated, of the existing literature, rather than a novel contribution to the field. I also am not overly enthusiastic about the overall maturity of self-regulation research. However, Duckworth et al.'s contributions in the Annual Review of Psychology this year (2019) have made me more optimistic in this regard.
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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
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