Ozlem Ayduk

TL;DR: In this paper, a subjective history of success with promotion-related eagerness (promotion pride) orients individuals toward using eagerness means to approach a new task goal, whereas a subjective success with prevention-related vigilance (prevention pride).

TL;DR: Resistance to temptation as measured originally by the delay-of-gratification task is a relatively stable individual difference that predicts reliable biases in frontostriatal circuitries that integrate motivational and control processes.

TL;DR: Key findings from the longitudinal work and from earlier delay-of-gratification experiments examining the cognitive appraisal and attention control strategies that underlie preschoolers' ability to delay gratification are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the psychological operations that enable individuals to process negative emotions and experiences without increasing negative affect and found that a why focus on emotions from a self-distanced perspective (distanced-why strategy) was expected to enable "cool," reflective processing of emotions, in which individuals can focus on their experience without reactivating excessive "hot" negative affect.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of self-regulation through strategic attention deployment in moderating the link between rejection sensitivity and maladaptive outcomes was examined by the delay of gratification (DG) paradigm in childhood.