THE control of injurious forms of insect life by the application of biological methods has, in a number of instances, proved remarkably successful. Other methods of control in such cases had been ...

Most of us have heard of the famous double-slit experiment. Usually it’s played out in a lab in seconds. But there’s one version, dreamt up by physicist John Archibald Wheeler, that can be ...

Cuttlefish, the squishy sea creatures, showed impressive self-control in an experiment. It means they have something in common with primates.

Unlike present-biased individuals, agents who suffer self-control costs as in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) may choose to restrict their choice set even when they expect to resist temptation. To identify ...

If you're at a loose end tonight and looking for a suitably spooky pastime for Halloween, you might want to check out what's going on at the MIT Media Lab.

Psychologist Roy Baumeister reflects on his groundbreaking 1998 research on self-control and shares how it became the dominant theory despite its unpopular Freudian roots.