Some Middle School Students Want Behavior Commitment Devices (but Take-Up Does Not Affect Their Behavior).
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SUBMITTER: Robinson CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5835880 | biostudies-literature | 2018
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Some Middle School Students Want Behavior Commitment Devices (but Take-Up Does Not Affect Their Behavior).
Robinson Carly D CD Pons Gonzalo A GA Duckworth Angela L AL Rogers Todd T
Frontiers in psychology 20180228
Commitment devices impose costs on one's future self for failing to follow through on one's intentions, offer no additional benefit to one's future self for following through on the intention, and people voluntarily enroll in them. Enrollment in commitment devices reflects self-awareness that one may lack sufficient self-control to fulfill one's intentions. There is little experimental research on whether school-age children possess the self-awareness necessary to enroll in a commitment device, ...[more]
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