Whither Inhibition?
| Autor: | Kaitlyn M. Werner, Michael Inzlicht, Brett Q. Ford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Directions in Psychological Science. 31:333-339 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8721 0963-7214 |
| Popis: | Inhibition is considered an essential process to goal pursuit and as a result has become a central construct in many disciplines in psychology and adjacent fields. Despite a century’s worth of debate, however, there is little consensus about what inhibition actually is. We suggest it is time to abandon the concept of inhibition as it currently stands, given that its definition has been problematic. Instead, we propose an alternative framework that suggests inhibition has been improperly operationalized as a process to obtain a goal, when in fact inhibition is the target outcome. To better understand how people can achieve an inhibition goal, we leverage existing process models to further elucidate how people can actively regulate impulses and desires. Although the field has been led astray by classifying inhibition as a process, our current framework seeks to provide greater practical utility to the study of goal pursuit moving forward. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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