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SUBMITTER: Wagner DD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4151046 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wagner Dylan D DD Altman Myra M Boswell Rebecca G RG Kelley William M WM Heatherton Todd F TF
Psychological science 20130911 11
To be successful at self-regulation, individuals must be able to resist impulses and desires. The strength model of self-regulation suggests that when self-regulatory capacity is depleted, self-control deficits result from a failure to engage top-down control mechanisms. Using functional neuroimaging, we examined changes in brain activity in response to viewing desirable foods among 31 chronic dieters, half of whom completed a task known to result in self-regulatory depletion. Compared with nond ...[more]