Abstract
Effortless Willpower? The Integrative Self and Self-Determined Goal Pursuit.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Personality and Social Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Recently Ainslie (2020) related effortful willpower to suppression, one’s ability to gate out imminent urges to maintain a current intention, and effortless willpower to resolve, one’s ability to motivate oneself to stick to a plan that is considered best on the basis of future incentives and expected temptations
Research within SDT has sought to understand the neurocognitive substrates of volitional motivation and existing studies suggest some points of overlap with Personality Systems Interactions (PSI) theory (Ryan and Deci, 2018)
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Personality and Social Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. This differentiation strongly overlaps with differentiations within the behavioral sciences of motivation that have been widely researched, within both Self-Determination Theory [SDT; e.g., Ryan and Deci (2000, 2018)] and Personality Systems Interactions (PSI) Theory [e.g., Kuhl (2000) and Kuhl et al (2015)].
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