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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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Human evil: The myth of pure evil and the true causes of violence.
TL;DR: Baumeister as mentioned in this paper used psychological research to answer the question "Why is there evil?" from the perspective of psychological research and found that most people who commit evil acts do not themselves regard their actions as evil.
Desire and desire regulation
TL;DR: In this article, a good deal of people's waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire, and the primary questions that we seek to answer in this chapter are: What is desire? When does it become problematic? How does desire regulation work? When and why can it go wrong? And how can it be improved?
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Unjustified side effects were strongly intended: Taboo tradeoffs and the side-effect effect
TL;DR: The side effect effect is the seemingly irrational tendency for people to say harmful side effects were more intentional than helpful side effects of the same action But the tendency may not be irrational according to the Tradeoffs Justification Model as discussed by the authors.
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Self-control: limited resources and extensive benefits
TL;DR: This work has shown that self-control resources can be managed and conserved for future tasks, and the physiological basis of the limited resource model point to promising areas for future self- control research.