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Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Using science-based strategies for successful willpower

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, associate professor of psychology | 7/24/12 | 3 comments

The password to my diet website used to be “willpower.” This was actually an inside joke of sorts, meant to remind me of the following sentences:

“Willpower is often construed as a stoic self-denial in the service of a distant goal, a capacity to deliberately endure and suffer while “biting the … More >

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton On not blowing your diet after those long holiday weekends

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, associate professor of psychology | 9/6/11 | 12 comments

If you have ever been on a diet, you know how difficult it can be to restrain the impulse to eat, eat, eat. It almost seems like even beyond our normal tendency to eat, dieting — when we’re not careful– can lead you to lose it and, ironically, eat even … More >

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