Thinking in action: Need for Cognition predicts Self-Control together with Action Orientation.

ABSTRACT: Need for Cognition describes relatively stable interindividual differences in cognitive motivation. Previous research has shown relations of Need for Cognition to Self-Control-a capacity that can be broadly defined as resistance to temptation-yet, the processes underlying this relation remain unclear. One explanation for the prediction of Self-Control by Need for Cognition can be an increased motivation to invest cognitive effort with higher levels of Need for Cognition. Another possible link could be that individual differences in the implementation of Self-Control intentions may play a moderating or mediating role for the predictive value of Need for Cognition. Such individual differences in the self-motivated initiation and maintenance of intentions are described by dispositional Action

SUBMITTER: Grass J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6675071 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature