{"id":119,"date":"2015-12-21T21:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/?p=119"},"modified":"2015-12-21T21:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:31:02","slug":"self-control-as-a-limited-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/2015\/12\/21\/self-control-as-a-limited-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Control as a Limited Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a hundred publications have found support for the notion that self-control is a limited resource (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/index.php\/news\/releases\/self-control-may-not-be-a-limited-resource-after-all.html\">Association for Psychological Science<\/a>). \u00a0I think my behavior today is a poster-child demonstration of that idea:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/new-stash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/new-stash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"717\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After PROMISING myself I would not purchase more yarn until I finished the dozen or so stash\/pattern paired projects I have waiting for me, I walked out of The Mannings (my local yarn shop) with 19 skeins of yarn. \u00a0Oh the shame.<\/p>\n<p>In my defense (watch me rationalize here) The Mannings IS closing at the end of the month (sob) and the yarn WAS 40% off.<\/p>\n<p>And I know this bad behavior on my part is fueled, at least a little bit, by the approximately 7,000 papers and exams I still have to grade. \u00a0And the two empirical papers I have to rewrite and resubmit for possible publication over the break.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need a doughnut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a hundred publications have found support for the notion that self-control is a limited resource (Association for Psychological Science). \u00a0I think my behavior today is a poster-child demonstration of that idea: After PROMISING myself I would not purchase more yarn until I finished the dozen or so stash\/pattern paired projects I have waiting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}