Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 27/01/2014 - 13:34
Research carried out by PhD student Hyunji Kim (now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Essex) under the supervision of Dr. Simone Schnall and Dr. Mathew White (University of Exeter) addresses the question of why people often given in to temptations. Dr. Schnall explains to Cambridge News how this work relates to decision making in everyday life and how it can help people keep their new year’s resolutions: http://tinyurl.com/ol7xb58.
Further details about the research, which was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, can be found here.