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February 22, 2010
In Today's Issue
- Overweight? Shocking Proof that it may not be your fault
- Self Control Is Contagious
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Self Control Is Contagious
Dear Reader,
If you spend time with people who have self control, you can expect your own level of control to be pretty strong according to research published online in the December 15, 2009 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
The opposite is also true - Spending time with those who don't have much in the way of self-control encourages you in negative behaviors.
"Before, we knew people tended to hang out with other people who were like themselves," explains Michelle vanDellen, a professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, who led the research. "But in these studies, we actually show there is a direct effect of our friends' behavior on our own behavior," and that the findings apply, she concludes, "not only to the people we [choose to] hang out with, but those we are forced to hang out with." Think your co-workers, fellow students and the like.
The conclusions are based on five different studies conducted over two years by vanDellen and co-author Rick Hoyle of Duke University.
Even though the studies were conducted in a lab setting this is important news for anyone trying to stop a bad habit, or start up some good ones.
The amount of influence might be the difference between eating an extra cookie or keeping your promise to workout more. At least this is a nudge in the right direction.
Of the five projects, the study the authors had the most fun with involved 71 subjects and two plates of food. One was loaded with carrot sticks, the other with fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.
The participants saw someone show self-control by eating the healthy snack and leaving the cookies, or someone enjoying the cookies and ignoring the healthier alternative.
After this, the subjects took self-control tests and those who had watched someone eat cookies didn't do as well as those who watched someone eat the carrots.
In another of the five studies, the team found that 36 participants who'd been randomly assigned to think of a friend with good self control held out longer on a test of handgrip used to measure self control than did the subjects who thought of a friend with less than stellar self control.
Still another bit of work on the same theme involved asking 42 people to list the names of friends who had both good and bad self-control. The participants then took a test (designed to measure their self-control) and a name was flashed very briefly on a computer screen.
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Self Control Is Contagious Continued...
Again, those who saw the name of a friend with good self-control did better on the test than the subjects who saw the name of a friend with poor self-control.
The fourth of the studies involved the assignment supplied to 122 subjects - write about a friend with good self-control, bad self-control or an outgoing friend. Those who wrote about the friend with good self-control did better on a test of self-control, those who wrote about a friend with poor self-control did worst, and those who wrote about an outgoing friend scored in the middle of the two groups.
In the final study, 117 subjects were randomly assigned to write about friends with good or bad self-control. Those who wrote about the friend with good self control performed better on word identification tests related to self-control.
This is the first research to show that self-control is contagious across behaviors.
"The take-home message of this study is that picking social influences that are positive can improve your self-control," says vanDellen. "And by exhibiting self-control, you're helping others around you do the same."
Surrounding yourself with healthy, motivated people gives you the best odds of controlling your behavior and achieving your goals. This is one reason why a training buddy can be so useful, as long as they are motivated too.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
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Sources:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=110512
Michelle R. vanDellen, Ph.D., University of Georgia:
http://www.uga.edu/ptf/fellows.html
Rick Hoyle of Duke University:
http://www.duke.edu/~rhoyle/
Dec. 15, 2009, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, online:
http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/2/251
Great article in April 2009 LiveScience on why self-control is not natural:
http://www.livescience.com/culture/090410-hn-self-control.html
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