Self-Regulation Failure: An Overview

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1977 • 31,678 citations

The Principles of Psychology

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A general theory of crime.

1990 • 6,616 citations

A General Theory of Crime

1990 • 6,235 citations

Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention.

1977 • 5,510 citations

Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.

1979 • 3,058 citations

Attention and Self-Regulation : A Control-Theory Approach to Human Behavior

1981 • 2,645 citations

Ironic processes of mental control.

1994 • 2,437 citations

Control theory: A useful conceptual framework for personality–social, clinical, and health psychology.

1982 • 2,323 citations

Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

1991 • 2,057 citations

Knee-deep in the big muddy: a study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action

1976 • 2,003 citations

The Transtheoretical Approach: Crossing Traditional Boundaries of Therapy

1986 • 1,991 citations

Frustration-aggression hypothesis: Examination and reformulation.

1989 • 1,975 citations

Paradoxical effects of thought suppression.

1987 • 1,939 citations

Losing control: how and why people fail at self-regulation

1995 • 1,815 citations

Toward a Comprehensive Model of Change

1986 • 1,776 citations

Alcohol myopia: Its prized and dangerous effects.

1990 • 1,714 citations

Alcohol myopia: Its prized and dangerous effects.

1990 • 1,476 citations

Restrained and unrestrained eating¹

1975 • 1,247 citations

Choking under pressure: Self-consciousness and paradoxical effects of incentives on skillful performance.

1984 • 1,156 citations

Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions.

1990 • 1,144 citations

Test anxiety and direction of attention.

1971 • 1,047 citations

The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.

1988 • 944 citations

And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

1988 • 826 citations

The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.

1988 • 821 citations

Processes in Delay of Gratification

1974 • 774 citations

Violence, aggression, and coercive actions.

1994 • 732 citations

Effects of alcohol on human aggression: An intergrative research review.

1990 • 712 citations

Violence, aggression, & coercive actions

1995 • 659 citations

Anger, the misunderstood emotion

1983 • 596 citations

Islands in the Street

1991 • 596 citations

The nature of adolescence

1980 • 592 citations

Some extraordinary facts about obese humans and rats.

1971 • 556 citations

Conflict among personal strivings: Immediate and long-term implications for psychological and physical well-being.

1988 • 535 citations

Islands in the street: gangs and American urban society

1991 • 510 citations

When ego threats lead to self-regulation failure: Negative consequences of high self-esteem.

1993 • 492 citations

Self-control: A behavioristic excursion into the lion's den

1972 • 479 citations

Conflict among personal strivings: Immediate and long-term implications for psychological and physical well-being.

1988 • 457 citations

A self-awareness model of the causes and effects of alcohol consumption.

1981 • 433 citations

Unrequited love: On heartbreak, anger, guilt, scriptlessness, and humiliation.

1993 • 428 citations

A Theory Of Action Identification

1985 • 421 citations

Self-control: Beyond commitment

1995 • 411 citations

Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention.

1977 • 396 citations

A cybernetic model of self-attention processes.

1979 • 381 citations

Recidivism and self-cure of smoking and obesity.

1982 • 358 citations

Violence and U.S. regional culture.

1993 • 344 citations

Alcohol and social behavior: I. The psychology of drunken excess.

1985 • 340 citations

Escalation of commitment in individual and group decision making

1984 • 314 citations

Once a boring task always a boring task? Interest as a self-regulatory mechanism.

1992 • 307 citations

Once a boring task always a boring task? Interest as a self-regulatory mechanism.

1992 • 297 citations

Psychic cost of adaptation to an environmental stressor.

1969 • 268 citations

Alcohol and social behavior: I. The psychology of drunken excess.

1985 • 249 citations

Personal narratives about guilt: Role in action control and interpersonal relationships.

1995 • 245 citations

Concepts of chemical dependency

1990 • 232 citations

Too Much Invested to Quit

1980 • 232 citations

Influence of affect on cognitive social learning person variables.

1982 • 229 citations

Delay of gratification: Some longitudinal personality correlates.

1983 • 217 citations

Cognitive person variables in the delay of gratification of older children at risk.

1989 • 214 citations

Factors affecting entrapment in waiting situations: The Rosencrantz and Guildenstern effect.

1975 • 212 citations

Perception of calories and regulation of intake in restrained and unrestrained subjects

1976 • 208 citations

You Can't Always Think What You Want: Problems in the Suppression of Unwanted Thoughts

1992 • 195 citations

Cognitive person variables in the delay of gratification of older children at risk.

1989 • 155 citations

Ironic processes of mental control.

1994 • 146 citations

Adultery: an analysis of love and betrayal

1989 • 137 citations

Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

1991 • 129 citations

Personal Narratives About Guilt: Role in Action Control and Interpersonal Relationships

1995 • 125 citations

Self-regulatory failure: A review with clinical implications

1987 • 104 citations

Self-related problems beyond the self-concept: Motivational consequences of discrepant self-guides.

1988 • 97 citations

The moderating effects of strategy, visibility, and involvement on allocation behavior: An extension of staw's escalation paradigm

1980 • 83 citations

Controlling anger: Self-induced emotion change.

1993 • 82 citations

Efficiency under record performance demands: Exertion control--an individual difference variable?

1988 • 77 citations

When ego threats lead to self-regulation failure: Negative consequences of high self-esteem.

1993 • 73 citations

Efficiency under record performance demands: Exertion control—an individual difference variable?

1988 • 67 citations

In search of the true amok: amok as viewed with the Malay culture

1976 • 61 citations

Championship pressures: Choking or triumphing in one's own territory?

1995 • 61 citations

Self-Esteem, Self-Prediction, and Living up to Commitments

1993 • 53 citations

Do or die

1991 • 52 citations

Why not wait?: A cognitive model of self-imposed delay termination.

1983 • 51 citations

Is Criminal Violence Normative Behavior?

1978 • 50 citations

Type A behavior, achievement striving, and a dysfunctional self-evaluation system.

1987 • 32 citations

Toward the Reduction of Entrapment¹

1982 • 32 citations

Type A behavior, achievement striving, and a dysfunctional self-evaluation system.

1987 • 30 citations

Unrequited love: On heartbreak, anger, guilt, scriptlessness, and humiliation.

1993 • 29 citations

Adultery: An analysis of love and betrayal

1994 • 17 citations

Influence of affect on cognitive social learning person variables.

1982 • 12 citations

Transcendence, guilt, and self-control

1995 • 11 citations

Championship pressures: Choking or triumphing in one's own territory?

1995 • 4 citations