Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Longitudinal evidence that Event Related Potential measures of self-regulation do not predict everyday goal pursuit

  • Blair Saunders,
  • Marina Milyavskaya,
  • Michael Inzlicht

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30786-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Self-regulation helps people to achieve their goals, and has been studied across modalities. Here, the authors present longitudinal evidence suggesting that common neural and behavioral measures of self-regulation derived from laboratory tasks do not predict everyday goal pursuit.