Timothy Ballard

TL;DR: Self-regulation is the dynamic process by which people manage competing demands on their time and resources as they strive to achieve desired outcomes, while simultaneously preventing or avoiding undesired outcomes as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and tested an integrative formal model of motivation and decision making, referred to as the extended multiple-goal pursuit model (MGPM*), which is an integration of the MDP model and decision field theory (Busemeyer & Townsend, 1993).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dynamic, formal model that provides a framework for describing and predicting the dynamics of avoidance goal regulation, and conduct a series of simulations to examine the dynamic pattern of behavior that emerges from the model when an avoidance goal is pursued in isolation and when an approach goal is also present.

TL;DR: A theory of how people prioritize their time when pursuing goals with different deadlines is presented, which broadens the range of phenomena that can be accounted for within a single theory of multiple-goal pursuit, and improves the understanding of the interface between motivation and decision making.

TL;DR: The authors report a blind expert test of contrarian claims about climatological variables and find that they are misleading and may increase bias rather than balance, which suggests that media inclusion of such contrarian statements may lead to increased bias.