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Roy F. Baumeister
Researcher at University of Queensland
Publications - 670
Citations - 146163
Roy F. Baumeister is an academic researcher from University of Queensland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ego depletion & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 157, co-authored 650 publications receiving 132987 citations. Previous affiliations of Roy F. Baumeister include Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences & Princeton University.
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Virtue, Personality, and Social Relations: Self‐Control as the Moral Muscle
TL;DR: This work analyzes vice, sin, and virtue from the perspective of self-control theory and suggests the analogy of a moral muscle as an appropriate way to conceptualize virtue in personality.
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Prosocial Benefits of Feeling Free: Disbelief in Free Will Increases Aggression and Reduces Helpfulness
TL;DR: The current results suggest that disbelief in free will reduces helping and increases aggression, and does not speak to the existence of free will.
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Do Conscious Thoughts Cause Behavior
TL;DR: The evidence for conscious causation of behavior is profound, extensive, adaptive, multifaceted, and empirically strong, however, conscious causation is often indirect and delayed, and it depends on interplay with unconscious processes.
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Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death: Effects of self-control depletion and trait self-control on thoughts and fears of dying.
TL;DR: The results suggest that self-regulation is a key intrapsychic mechanism for alleviating troublesome thoughts and feelings about mortality.
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The Symbolic Power of Money Reminders of Money Alter Social Distress and Physical Pain
TL;DR: Six studies tested relationships among reminders of money, social exclusion, and physical pain, finding that handling money reduced distress over social exclusion and diminished the physical pain of immersion in hot water.