articleJournal of Personality and Social PsychologyDec 12, 2011Closed access

Everyday temptations: An experience sampling study of desire, conflict, and self-control.

WHWilhelm HofmannRFRoy F. BaumeisterGFGeorg FörsterKDKathleen D. Vohs

University of Chicago · Florida State University · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

How often and how strongly do people experience desires, to what extent do their desires conflict with other goals, and how often and successfully do people exercise self-control to resist their desires? To investigate desire and attempts to control desire in everyday life, we conducted a large-scale experience sampling study based on a conceptual framework integrating desire strength, conflict, resistance (use of self-control), and behavior enactment. A sample of 205 adults wore beepers for a week. They furnished 7,827 reports of desire episodes and completed personality measures of behavioral inhibition system/behavior activation system (BIS/BAS) sensitivity, trait self-control, perfectionism, and…

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  • Psychology
  • Situational ethics
  • Social psychology
  • Personality
  • Experience sampling method
  • Resistance (ecology)
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Everyday life
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  • Good health and well-being
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