For all its popularity as a psychological construct, willpower is irremediably polysemous. A more helpful construct is self-control, defined as the self-regulation of conflicting impulses. We show how the process model of self-control provides a principled framework for examining how undesirable impulses may be weakened and desirable impulses may be strengthened.

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超越意志力

尽管它作为一种心理结构很受欢迎，意志是不可挽回的多义词。一个更有帮助的结构是自我控制，定义为冲突冲动的自我调节。我们展示了自我控制的过程模型如何提供一个原则框架，用于检查不良冲动如何被削弱和理想冲动如何被加强。