@article{ref1,
title="The push and pull of temptation: the bidirectional influence of temptation on self-control",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2011",
author="Nordgren, Loran F. and Chou, Eileen Y.",
volume="22",
number="11",
pages="1386-1390",
abstract="This article examines how people respond to the emergence of temptation in their environment. Three studies demonstrated that how people respond to temptation depends critically on their visceral state-whether or not they are actively experiencing visceral drives such as hunger, drug craving, or sexual arousal. We found that when people were in a &quot;cold,&quot; nonvisceral state, the presence of temptation prompted cognition to support self-control. However, when people were in a &quot;hot,&quot; visceral state, temptation prompted the same cognitive processes to support impulsive behavior. Study 1 examined how heterosexual men's level of sexual arousal influences their attention to attractive women. Study 2 examined whether satiated and craving smokers would engage in motivated reasoning in order to dampen (or enhance) the appeal of smoking when confronted with the temptation to smoke. Study 3 tested the boundaries of the interaction between visceral state and temptation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797611418349",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611418349"
}