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A little self-control will keep you out of debt.
When your child gains self-control over his impulses, that leads to greater confidence and more productive behavior.
She felt like screaming at him, but she was determined not to lose her self-control.
She gave herself time to regain her self-control and when she spoke again her manner was more composed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Self-control and moderation
anti-pleasure
ascetically
asceticism
be in command (of yourself)idiom
boundary
go easyidiom
go steady on somethingidiom
golden mean
grip
imperviously
puritanically
puritanism
restrained
restrainedly
restraint
stint
temperance
undignified
unsensational
willpower

self-control | American Dictionary

self-control
noun[ U ]
us/ˌself·kənˈtroʊl/
control over your emotions and actions; self-restraint:
They try to teach teamwork, self-control, and how to deal with adversity.

Examples of self-control

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The relationship between altruism and self-control may be understood as similar discounting processes for extrinsic reinforcement, social and temporal.
This perspective suggests further tests of whether altruism is a type of self-control, including brain imaging, induced affect, and dual-task studies.
Drives and emotions were increasingly regulated and contained through the exercise of self-control.
This question is important because its answer determines whether people need a special mechanism for altruism, aside from whatever mechanism mediates self-control.
Behavioral self-control strategies for deliberately limiting drinking among college students.
If altruism requires self-control, then brain regions that contribute to cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma should also contribute to self-control in the primrose path.
Does one exercise self-control by staying on the plane for the entire six hours?
The next three sections describe some applications of our work to clinical intervention, drug addiction, and self-control.
But animals and young children, tempted by immediate gains, have difficulty learning behaviors of self-control.
The bulk of research on self-control has used humans and pigeons as subjects.
Such self-control is influential in the planning process but is more generally influential in initiating and sustaining the subsequent coping response.
Aren't there countless real-life examples and experimental results showing that people can behave altruistically even without self-control?
Reminding citizens that families are the moral center of society sounded friendlier and less pedagogical than talking only about personal self-control and discipline.
First, an evolved strategy could give rise to both self-control and altruism as easily as an innate learning mechanism could.
An agent's act of self-control or altruism promotes habits beneficial to her.
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