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title: "Self-Regulation and the Executive Function: The Self as Controlling Agent - Limitless Mindset"
description: "Most of the social and personal problems that afflict people in modern western society have some element of self-regulatory failure at their root. This is not to say that better self regulation would alone solve all society's problems — but it would probably go a long way toward that end."
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# Self-Regulation and the Executive Function: The Self as Controlling Agent

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**Importance of Self-Regulation**: To appreciate the importance of self-regulation, it is necessary to consider both practical and theoretical implications. The practical ones were anticipated in the opening paragraph of this chapter, but they can be stated more systematically as follows: Most of the social and personal problems that afflict people in modern western society have some element of self-regulatory failure at their root. This is not to say that better self regulation would alone solve all society's problems — but it would probably go a long way toward that end.

### Scientific Studies & Papers

Author of Study or Paper

Kathleen D. Vohs, Brandon J. Schmeichel and Roy F. Baumeister

Source

University of Minnesota

Date Published

2007

Scientific Link

[http://www.csom.umn.edu/assets/71708.pdf](http://www.csom.umn.edu/assets/71708.pdf)

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