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A Social History and Analysis of the Lsd Controversy

A Three-Component Model of Children's Teasing: Aggression, Humor, and Ambiguity

A boost of positive affect

A new look at defensive projection: thought suppression, accessibility, and biased person perception.

scientific article published in May 1997

A review of paradoxical performance effects: Choking under pressure in sports and mental tests

article

A self-presentational view of social phenomena

A theory of limited metabolic energy and premenstrual syndrome symptoms: Increased metabolic demands during the luteal phase divert metabolic resources from and impair self-control

A thin slice of violence: distinguishing violent from nonviolent sex offenders at a glance

Acetaminophen reduces social pain: behavioral and neural evidence

scientific article

Acid rock: a critical reappraisal and psychological commentary.

scientific article

Action Versus State Orientation and Self-Control Performance After Depletion

article published in 2014

Addiction and free will

scientific article published on June 2009

Addiction, cigarette smoking, and voluntary control of action: Do cigarette smokers lose their free will?

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Against reductionism in suicide theories

Alone and without purpose: Life loses meaning following social exclusion

scientific article

Alone but feeling no pain: Effects of social exclusion on physical pain tolerance and pain threshold, affective forecasting, and interpersonal empathy

scientific article published on July 2006

An Integrative Model of Effortful Control

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

An international survey of perceptions of the 2014 FIFA World Cup: National levels of corruption as a context for perceptions of institutional corruption

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Are We Free?

Are groups more or less than the sum of their members? The moderating role of individual identification

scientific article

Are morally good actions ever free?

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Arguing, reasoning, and the interpersonal (cultural) functions of human consciousness

Attempting to Improve the Academic Performance of Struggling College Students by Bolstering Their Self–esteem: An Intervention that Backfired

Audience support and choking under pressure: a home disadvantage?

scientific article published in April 2005

Automatic emotion regulation after social exclusion: tuning to positivity

scientific article published in June 2011

Bad is freer than good: Positive-negative asymmetry in attributions of free will

scientific article

Bad is stronger than good

Believing versus Disbelieving in Free Will: Correlates and Consequences

article by Roy F. Baumeister & Lauren E. Brewer published October 2012 in Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Believing, belonging, meaning, and religious coping

article by Roy F. Baumeister & Michael MacKenzie published October 2011 in Religion, brain & behavior

Belongingness and Temporal Bracketing in Personal Accounts of Changes in Self-Esteem

Biased steps toward reasonable conclusions: How self-deception remains hidden

article

Biasing evaluations to appear unbiased: A self-presentational paradox

article

Binge eating as escape from self-awareness

scientific article

Book Reviews

Breaking the Rules: Low Trait or State Self-Control Increases Social Norm Violations

article published in 2012

Buying to blunt negative feelings: Materialistic escape from the self

Can the public expectation of emotion cause that emotion?1

Catharsis, aggression, and persuasive influence: self-fulfilling or self-defeating prophecies?

scientific article

Charting the future of social psychology on stormy seas: Winners, losers, and recommendations

Childhood self-control and unemployment throughout the life span: evidence from two British cohort studies

scientific article

Childhood self-control predicts smoking throughout life: Evidence from 21,000 cohort study participants.

scientific article published on 08 September 2016

Choice, free will, and religion

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

scientific article

Choking under social pressure: social monitoring among the lonely

scientific article

Cognitive processes during deliberate self-presentation: How self-presenters alter and misinterpret the behavior of their interaction partners

Committed but Closed-Minded: When Making a Specific Plan for a Goal Hinders Success

Comparing cognitive load and self-regulatory depletion: Effects on emotions and cognitions

Competing for love: Applying sexual economics theory to mating contests

Competitive reputation manipulation: Women strategically transmit social information about romantic rivals

Conquest by force: A narcissistic reactance theory of rape and sexual coercion

Conscious thought does not guide moment-to-moment actions-it serves social and cultural functions

scientific article published on 26 July 2013

Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: how mental simulations serve the animal-culture interface

scientific article published in July 2010

Consider it done! Plan making can eliminate the cognitive effects of unfulfilled goals

scientific article published in October 2011

Control deprivation and styles of thinking

scientific article

Cooperation and fairness depend on self-regulation

scientific article

Correcting Some Misrepresentations About Gender and Sexual Economics Theory

scientific article published on 03 August 2015

Cultural suppression of female sexuality

Cultural variations in the sexual marketplace: gender equality correlates with more sexual activity

scientific article

Death Before Dishonor

scholarly article

Deciding without Resources: Resource Depletion and Choice in Context

Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime-but Not Among Countries With Relatively High Average IQ

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Depletion makes the heart grow less helpful: helping as a function of self-regulatory energy and genetic relatedness

scientific article

Determined to conform: Disbelief in free will increases conformity

Dieting and the self-control of eating in everyday environments: an experience sampling study

scientific article

Differentiating selves facilitates group outcomes

scientific article published on January 2016

Differentiation of individual selves facilitates group-level benefits of ultrasociality

scientific article published in January 2016

Disputing the effects of championship pressures and home audiences

article

Diverging effects of clean versus dirty money on attitudes, values, and interpersonal behavior.

scientific article published on 5 November 2012

Do conscious thoughts cause behavior?

scientific article published on January 2011

Do people aggress to improve their mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation opportunity, and aggressive responding

scientific article published in July 2001

Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles?

scientific article

Does self-love or self-hate lead to violence?

article by Brad J Bushman & Roy F. Baumeister published December 2002 in Journal of Research in Personality

Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem".

scientific article published in January 2007

Effect of Therapist's Disclosure of Religious Beliefs on the Intimacy of Client Self-Disclosure

Effects of personal values, perceived surveillance, and task labels on task preference: The ideology of turning play into work

Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought

scientific article published on October 2002

Ego Depletion and Self-Control Failure: An Energy Model of the Self's Executive Function

scientific article (publication date: April 2002)

Ego Depletion: A Resource Model of Volition, Self-Regulation, and Controlled Processing

Ego depletion and aggressive behavior: Is the inhibition of aggression a limited resource?

Ego depletion and self-regulation failure: a resource model of self-control

scientific article published in February 2003

Ego depletion decreases trust in economic decision making.

scientific article

Ego depletion in color priming research: self-control strength moderates the detrimental effect of red on cognitive test performance

scientific article

Ego depletion: is the active self a limited resource?

scientific article

Embodied free will beliefs: some effects of physical states on metaphysical opinions

scientific article

Emotional distress regulation takes precedence over impulse control: if you feel bad, do it!

scientific article

Emotions and antisocial behavior

Encyclopedia of Social Psychology

Escaping the Self: The Moderating Effect of Self-Complexity

article published in 1991

Everyday Thoughts in Time: Experience Sampling Studies of Mental Time Travel

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Everyday temptations: an experience sampling study of desire, conflict, and self-control.

scientific article

Evidence that logical reasoning depends on conscious processing

scientific article published on 28 January 2008

Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth

Exploding the self-esteem myth.

scientific article

Family as a salient source of meaning in young adulthood

Fashioning a selfish self amid selfish goals

scientific article published in April 2014

Fearing the Future? Future-Oriented Thought Produces Aversion to Risky Investments, Trust, and Immorality

article by Andrew E. Monroe et al published February 2017 in Social Cognition

Feeling duped: Emotional, motivational, and cognitive aspects of being exploited by others

Finding the meaning of meaning: Emerging insights on four grand questions

Foraging extends beyond food: Hoarding of mental energy and information seeking in response to uncertainty

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Forget the Folk: Moral Responsibility Preservation Motives and Other Conditions for Compatibilism

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Free Will and Consciousness

Free Will as Advanced Action Control for Human Social Life and Culture

article

Free Will in Scientific Psychology

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Free to punish: a motivated account of free will belief.

scientific article published on April 2014

Free will and punishment: a mechanistic view of human nature reduces retribution.

scientific article published on 10 June 2014

Free will in consumer behavior: Self-control, ego depletion, and choice

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

Free will in everyday life: Autobiographical accounts of free and unfree actions

article published in 2011

Free will is about choosing: The link between choice and the belief in free will

article published in 2014

Freudian Defense Mechanisms and Empirical Findings in Modern SocialPsychology: Reaction Formation, Projection, Displacement, Undoing, Isolation, Sublimation, and Denial

scholarly article published in December 1998

From terror to joy: automatic tuning to positive affective information following mortality salience

scientific article published in November 2007

Further Thoughts on Counterfactuals, Compatibilism, Conceptual Mismatches, and Choices: Response to Commentaries

scientific article published on 13 April 2010

Gender and erotic plasticity: sociocultural influences on the sex drive

article by Roy F. Baumeister published May 2004 in Sexual and Relationship Therapy

Gender differences in masochistic scripts

Gossip as cultural learning

article published in 2004

Grief functions as an honest indicator of commitment

scientific article

Guilt: an interpersonal approach

scientific article

Guilty, free, and wise: Determinism and psychopathy diminish learning from negative emotions

Having Used Self-Control Reduces Emotion Regulation—Emotion Regulation as Relying on Interchangeably Used “Self-Control Energy”

High self-control predicts good adjustment, less pathology, better grades, and interpersonal success

scientific article published in April 2004

High trait self-control predicts positive health behaviors and success in weight loss

scientific article

Higher Self-Control Capacity Predicts Lower Anxiety-Impaired Cognition during Math Examinations.

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

How Often Does Currently Felt Emotion Predict Social Behavior and Judgment? A Meta-Analytic Test of Two Theories

How Stories Make Sense of Personal Experiences: Motives that Shape Autobiographical Narratives

How emotion shapes behavior: feedback, anticipation, and reflection, rather than direct causation

scientific article published on May 2007

How leaders self-regulate their task performance: evidence that power promotes diligence, depletion, and disdain.

scientific article

How the self became a problem: A psychological review of historical research

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How to Make Nothing Out of Something: Analyses of the Impact of Study Sampling and Statistical Interpretation in Misleading Meta-Analytic Conclusions

scientific article

Human self as information agent: Functioning in a social environment based on shared meanings

Identity as adaptation to social, cultural, and historical context

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

If you can't join them, beat them: effects of social exclusion on aggressive behavior.

scientific article published in December 2001

Illusions of Learning: Irrelevant Emotions Inflate Judgments of Learning

Implications of free will beliefs for basic theory and societal benefit: critique and implications for social psychology

scientific article published on 2 July 2012

Increasing self-regulatory strength can reduce the depleting effect of suppressing stereotypes.

scientific article published in February 2007

Individual identity and freedom of choice in the context of environmental and economic conditions

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Inferior performance as a selective response to expectancy: Taking a dive to make a point

Intellectual performance and ego depletion: role of the self in logical reasoning and other information processing.

scientific article published in July 2003

Interpersonal consequences of forgiveness: Does forgiveness deter or encourage repeat offenses?

Introduction to Symposium

Introduction to special issue: Emotion and decision making

Introduction to the special issue: The science of prospection

Introduction: Psychology and Free Will

Is There a Downside to Good Self-control?

Is There a Gender Difference in Strength of Sex Drive? Theoretical Views, Conceptual Distinctions, and a Review of Relevant Evidence

article

Is the Essence of Morality Mind Perception, Self-Regulation, Free Will, or Culture?

article

Is the allure of self-esteem a mirage after all?

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

It's not what you do, but what everyone else does: On the role of descriptive norms and subjectivism in moral judgment

It's the thought that counts: The role of hostile cognition in shaping aggressive responses to social exclusion

scientific article published on January 2009

Life Stories and the Four Need for Meaning

Life is uncertain, eat dessert first: Uncertainty causes controlled and unemotional eaters to consume more sweets

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Longitudinal Study of Procrastination, Performance, Stress, and Health: The Costs and Benefits of Dawdling

article

Looking Again, and Harder, for a Link Between Low Self-Esteem and Aggression

scientific article published on 02 February 2009

Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: a limited-resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative

scientific article

Making punishment palatable: Belief in free will alleviates punitive distress

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Masculinity inhibits helping in emergencies: Personality does predict the bystander effect

Maybe it helps to be conscious, after all

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Meaning as Magnetic Force

Meaning in Life: Nature, Needs, and Myths

Meaning in life and adjustment to daily stressors

article by Jina Park & Roy F. Baumeister published 15 July 2016 in The Journal of Positive Psychology

Metatraits

Misguided Effort With Elusive Implications

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control

Narcissism, sexual refusal, and aggression: Testing a narcissistic reactance model of sexual coercion

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Nature, culture, and explanations for erotic plasticity: Reply to Andersen, Cyranowski, and Aarestad (2000) and Hyde and Durik (2000)

article

Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past

scientific article

Negative Effects of Praise on Skilled Performance

Newcasters' facial expressions and voting behavior of viewers: Can a smile elect a president?

Not Just Another False Memory: Further Thoughts on the UFO Abduction Phenomenon

Not so innocent: does seeing one's own capacity for wrongdoing predict forgiveness?

scientific article published in March 2008

On knowing when to quit: Task failure, self-esteem, advice, and nonproductive persistence

On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action

On the Stability of Variability: Retest Reliability of Metatraits

Ordinary people associate addiction with loss of free will

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Ordinary people think free will is a lack of constraint, not the presence of a soul

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Ostracism and Ego Depletion: The Strains of Silence

article published in 2001

Out of Control

scholarly article

Paradoxical effects of supportive audiences on performance under pressure: The home field disadvantage in sports championships

Parenting behaviour and adolescent behavioural and emotional problems: The role of self-control

Passion, Intimacy, and Time: Passionate Love as a Function of Change in Intimacy

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Patterns in the Bizarre: Common Themes in Satanic Ritual Abuse, Sexual Masochism, UFO Abductions, Factitious Illness, and Extreme Love

article by Roy F. Baumeister & Kristin L. Sommer published June 1997 in Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

Personal Conflict Impairs Performance on an Unrelated Self-Control Task: Lingering Costs of Uncertainty and Conflict.

scientific article

Personal Philosophy and Personnel Achievement: Belief in Free Will Predicts Better Job Performance

Point-Counterpoints: Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Positive psychology at the Summit

Power increases the socially toxic component of narcissism among individuals with high baseline testosterone

article

Pragmatic prospection emphasizes utility of predicting rather than mere predictability

scientific article published in January 2017

Pragmatic prospection: How and why people think about the future

Prosocial benefits of feeling free: disbelief in free will increases aggression and reduces helpfulness

scientific article

Psychology as the Science of Self-Reports and Finger Movements: Whatever Happened to Actual Behavior?

scientific article

Psychopathy subfactors distinctively predispose to dispositional and state-level of sadistic pleasure

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Public versus private expectancy of success: Confidence booster or performance pressure?

Quid pro quo: the ecology of the self.

scientific article

Recent Research on Free Will

Recognizing and coping with our own prejudices: Fighting liberal bias without conservative input

scientific article published on January 2015

Reducing the Biasing Effect of Perpetrator Attractiveness in Jury Simulation

article

Rejection elicits emotional reactions but neither causes immediate distress nor lowers self-esteem: a meta-analytic review of 192 studies on social exclusion

scientific article published on 21 September 2009

Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: the dark side of high self-esteem

scientific article

Religion and Psychology: Introduction to the Special Issue

Replenishing connectedness: reminders of social activity reduce aggression after social exclusion

scientific article

Reply to Comments

scientific article published on March 2013

Repression and self-presentation: when audiences interfere with self-deceptive strategies

scientific article published on May 1, 1992

Repressive coping: Distraction using pleasant thoughts and memories

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

Resource-based interventions in the workplace: Integration, commentary, and recommendations

Responding to Major Threats to Self-Esteem: A Preliminary, Narrative Study of Ego-Shock

article published in 2003

Restoring the self: Positive affect helps improve self-regulation following ego depletion

Rethinking and Reclaiming the Interdisciplinary Role of Personality Psychology: The Science of Human Nature Should Be the Center of the Social Sciences and Humanities

article by Roy F. Baumeister & Dianne M. Tice published September 1996 in Journal of Research in Personality

Revisiting Our Reappraisal of the (Surprisingly Few) Benefits of High Self-Esteem.

scientific article published in March 2018

Role of self-control failure in immoral and unethical actions

Role of self-control strength in the relation between anxiety and cognitive performance

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Role of self-presentation and choice in cognitive dissonance under forced compliance: Necessary or sufficient causes?

Satiated with belongingness? Effects of acceptance, rejection, and task framing on self-regulatory performance

scientific article published on December 2008

Satisfaction–Adaptation Principles in Sexual Desire

Self and identity: a brief overview of what they are, what they do, and how they work

scientific article published on October 2011

Self-Awareness and Attitude Change: Seeing Oneself on the Central Route to Persuasion

Self-Control, Morality, and Human Strength

Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Aggression

Self-Esteem, Self-Handicapping, and Self-Presentation: The Strategy of Inadequate Practice

Self-Evaluation, Persistence, and Performance Following Implicit Rejection: The Role of Trait Self-Esteem

Self-Organization as Conceptual Key to Understanding Free Will

Self-Regulation Failure: An Overview

Self-Regulation Failure: Past, Present, and Future

Self-Regulation and Self-Presentation: Regulatory Resource Depletion Impairs Impression Management and Effortful Self-Presentation Depletes Regulatory Resources

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Self-Regulation of Cognitive Inference and Decision Processes

Self-Regulation, Ego Depletion, and Motivation

Self-awareness, task failure, and disinhibition: how attentional focus affects eating.

scientific article published in March 1993

Self-control and its relation to emotions and psychobiology: evidence from a Day Reconstruction Method study

scientific article published on 18 November 2012

Self-control as limited resource: regulatory depletion patterns

scientific article

Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: willpower is more than a metaphor

scientific article

Self-control, cultural animals, and Big Gods

scientific article

Self-control, future orientation, smoking, and the impact of Dutch tobacco control measures.

scientific article

Self-control: limited resources and extensive benefits

scientific article published on 7 March 2012

Self-defeating behavior patterns among normal individuals: review and analysis of common self-destructive tendencies

scientific article published on July 1988

Self-esteem and responses to success and failure: Subsequent performance and intrinsic motivation

article

Self-esteem, belongingness, and worldview validation: Does belongingness exert a unique influence upon self-esteem?

Self-esteem, self-presentation, and future Interaction: A dilemma of reputation

article published in 1982

Self-regulation and personality: how interventions increase regulatory success, and how depletion moderates the effects of traits on behavior

scientific article

Self-regulation and sexual restraint: dispositionally and temporarily poor self-regulatory abilities contribute to failures at restraining sexual behavior

scientific article

Self-regulation, ego depletion, and inhibition

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death: Effects of self-control depletion and trait self-control on thoughts and fears of dying

scientific article published in July 2006

Self‐control, fluctuating willpower, and forensic practice

Sex-Differentiated Changes in Sexual Desire Predict Marital Dissatisfaction

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Sexual Economics, Culture, Men, and Modern Sexual Trends

article

Sexual economics: sex as female resource for social exchange in heterosexual interactions.

scientific article

Shallow Gratitude: Public and Private Acknowledgement of External Help in Accounts of Success

article by Roy F. Baumeister & Stacey Ilko published 1 February 1995 in Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Should we stop studying sex differences altogether?

Social Exclusion Causes People to Spend and Consume Strategically in the Service of Affiliation

Social Rejection Can Reduce Pain and Increase Spending: Further Evidence That Money, Pain, and Belongingness Are Interrelated

article

Social Rejection, Control, Numbness, and Emotion: How Not to be Fooled by Gerber and Wheeler (2009)

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Social exclusion and the deconstructed state: time perception, meaninglessness, lethargy, lack of emotion, and self-awareness

scientific article published on September 2003

Social exclusion causes a shift toward prevention motivation

Social exclusion causes self-defeating behavior

scientific article (publication date: September 2002)

Social exclusion decreases prosocial behavior

scientific article

Social exclusion impairs self-regulation

scientific article (publication date: April 2005)

Social networking online and personality of self-worth: A meta-analysis

Social reality and the hole in determinism

Some Good News About Rumination: Task-Focused Thinking After Failure Facilitates Performance Improvement

Some key differences between a happy life and a meaningful life

article

Stereotypes and prejudice in the blood: Sucrose drinks reduce prejudice and stereotyping

article

Subjective and Experiential Correlates of Guilt in Daily Life

article by Roy F. Baumeister et al published December 1995 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Subjective correlates and consequences of belief in free will

Suicide as escape from self

scientific article published on January 1990

Suicide, Sex Terror, Paralysis, and Other Pitfalls of Reductionist Self-Preservation Theory

Suicide: The forever decision (2nd ed. rev.)

Taking stock of self-control: a meta-analysis of how trait self-control relates to a wide range of behaviors.

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited: the roles of implicit and explicit self-esteem in mortality salience effects

scientific article

The Construction of Victim and Perpetrator Memories: Accuracy and Distortion in Role-Based Accounts

The Effect of Public Social Context on Self-Control

scientific article published on 05 December 2011

The Effects of Success versus Failure Feedback on Further Self-Control

The Enigmatic Appeal of Sexual Masochism: Why People Desire Pain, Bondage, and Humiliation in Sex

The Future and the Will: Planning requires self-control, and ego depletion leads to planning aversion

article published in 2018

The Intrinsic Appeal of Evil: Sadism, Sensational Thrills, and Threatened Egotism

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

The Language of Defense

The Optimal Margin of Illusion

The Self Guides Conservation of Its Regulatory Resources

The Self-Control Irony: Desire for Self-Control Limits Exertion of Self-Control in Demanding Settings

scientific article published on 16 March 2017

The Sticky Anchor Hypothesis: Ego Depletion Increases Susceptibility to Situational Cues

The Strength Model of Self-Control

article

The Strength Model of Self-Regulation: Conclusions From the Second Decade of Willpower Research

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

The Sum of Friends' and Lovers' Self-Control Scores Predicts Relationship Quality

The Unconscious is Alive and Well, and Friendly Too

The Unity of Self at the Interface of the Animal Body and the Cultural System

The Value of Marriage in the Era of the Glorified Self

The coalitional value theory of antigay bias

article

The experience of freedom in decisions - Questioning philosophical beliefs in favor of psychological determinants

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

The interface between intrapsychic and interpersonal processes: Cognition, emotion, and self as adaptations to other people

The long goodbye: A test of grief as a social signal

The making of might-have-beens: effects of free will belief on counterfactual thinking

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

The nature and function of self-esteem: Sociometer theory

The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation

scientific article

The performance of narcissists rises and falls with perceived opportunity for glory

scientific article published on May 2002

The physiology of willpower: linking blood glucose to self-control

scientific article

The role of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism in self-reported and laboratory aggression and testosterone reactivity

The science of consciousness must include its more advanced forms

scientific article published in January 2016

The self-monitor looks at the ingratiator1

The sense of moral obligation facilitates information agency and culture

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

The symbolic power of money: reminders of money alter social distress and physical pain

scientific article published on 5 May 2009

The trouble with friendly faces: skilled performance with a supportive audience

scientific article published in November 1998

Threatened egotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and direct and displaced aggression: does self-love or self-hate lead to violence?

scientific article

To belong is to matter: sense of belonging enhances meaning in life

scientific article

Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty

scientific article published on January 2009

Too much of a good thing? Exploring the inverted-U relationship between self-control and happiness

scientific article

Too proud to let go: narcissistic entitlement as a barrier to forgiveness

scientific article

Toward a Theory of Situational Structure

Toward a general theory of motivation: Problems, challenges, opportunities, and the big picture

Toward a physiology of dual-process reasoning and judgment: lemonade, willpower, and expensive rule-based analysis

scientific article

Toward an Explanation of the UFO Abduction Phenomenon: Hypnotic Elaboration, Extraterrestrial Sadomasochism, and Spurious Memories

Trade-Offs and Depletion in Choice

Trait self-control and the avoidance of temptation

Two kinds of identity crisis

scientific article

Uncertainty, Belongingness, and Four Needs for Meaning

Understanding Free Will and Consciousness on the Basis of Current Research Findings in Psychology

Unfulfilled goals interfere with tasks that require executive functions

article published in 2011

Unjustified side effects were strongly intended: Taboo tradeoffs and the side-effect effect

Unmet belongingness needs but not high belongingness needs alone predict adverse well-being: A response surface modeling approach.

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

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

article by Roy F. Baumeister et al published 1993 in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Uses of self-regulation to facilitate and restrain addictive behavior

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Victim and perpetrator accounts of interpersonal conflict: autobiographical narratives about anger

scientific article

Violence restrained: Effects of self-regulation and its depletion on aggression

Virtually justifiable homicide: the effects of prosocial contexts on the link between violent video games, aggression, and prosocial and hostile cognition

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

We're All Victims Here: Toward a Psychology of Revenge

What do men want? Gender differences and two spheres of belongingness: comment on Cross and Madson (1997)

scientific article published in July 1997

What people desire, feel conflicted about, and try to resist in everyday life

scientific article

What's so funny about not having money? The effects of power on laughter

scientific article published on 24 August 2007

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money

scholarly article by Kathleen D. Vohs & Roy F. Baumeister published April 2011 in Journal of Consumer Psychology

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

scientific article

When self-presentation is constrained by the target's knowledge: Consistency and compensation

article by Roy F. Baumeister & Edward E. Jones published 1978 in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Who's in Charge Here?

scientific article published on 01 March 1988

Why do bad moods increase self-defeating behavior? Emotion, risk taking, and self-regulation

scientific article published in December 1996

Wie Kultur Männer benutzt

article by Roy F. Baumeister published in Merkur (2008), no. 704, pp. 10-23.

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

2011 book by Roy Baumeister

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

hardback edition (en)

Yes, but are they happy? Effects of trait self-control on affective well-being and life satisfaction.

scientific article published on 8 August 2013

Yielding to Temptation: Self‐Control Failure, Impulsive Purchasing, and Consumer Behavior

You didn't have to do that: belief in free will promotes gratitude

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Your money or your self-esteem: threatened egotism promotes costly entrapment in losing endeavors

scientific article published in July 2006