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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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Meaning in life and adjustment to daily stressors
Jina Park,Roy F. Baumeister +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that people perceive their life as meaningful when they find coherence in the environment and that people who lack meaning would be more threatened by stressful life events than those with a strong sense of meaning in life.
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Aggression and the self: High self-esteem, low self-control, and ego threat.
TL;DR: This article examined the link between self-esteem and violence, and explored the role of self-control and self-regulation in aggression, arguing that lack of self control may be the broadest and most important cause of crime.
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Choice, Free Will, and Religion
TL;DR: Although free will has been defined in multiple, conflicting ways, the present approach analyzes it as a psychological capacity subsuming self-control, effortful choice, planning, and initiative as mentioned in this paper.
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Action Versus State Orientation and Self-Control Performance After Depletion
TL;DR: The role of action versus state orientation in how people deal with depletion of self-control resources is investigated and no differences emerged between action- and state-oriented persons in their initial performance and in a non-depleting context.
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Newscasters' Facial Expressions and Voting Behavior of Viewers: Can a Smile Elect a President?
B. F. Mullen,David Futrell,Debbie Stairs,Dianne M. Tice,Roy F. Baumeister,Kathryn E. Dawson,Catherine A. Riordan,Christine E. Radloff,George R. Goethals,John G. Kennedy,Paul Rosenfeld +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the association between newscasters' facial expressions and the voting behavior of viewers and found that voters who regularly watched the newscaster who exhibited the biased facial expressions were significantly more likely to vote for the candidate that newscast had smiled upon.