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Identifying with others who control themselves could strengthen your own self-control

  • Written by Sabine Doebel, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado
If everyone else sticks with salad, maybe you will too.Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com

Is self-control something you can acquire, like a new language or a taste for opera? Or is it one of those things you either have or don’t, like fashion sense or a knack for telling a good joke?

Psychologist Walter Mischel’s famous results from the...

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