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Michael Inzlicht
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Latest funding
- $45,787
The path is the way: Exploring how the process of self-regulation increases meaning in everyday tasks
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $60,750
Social Media and Political Polarization
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $229,651
Self-control failure as by-product of boredom regulation: Testing a motivational model of self-control
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
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The path is the way: Exploring how the process of self-regulation increases meaning in everyday tasks
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: self-regulation; self-control; goal-setting; effort; meaning
Social Media and Political Polarization
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: Social media; Political polarization; Misinformation; Subjective wellbeing; Sense of belonging
Self-control failure as by-product of boredom regulation: Testing a motivational model of self-control
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: self-control; executive function; motivation; emotion; effort; ego depletion; replication crisis; social neuroscience; psychophysiology
Self-control failure as by-product of boredom regulation: Testing a motivational model of self-control
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: self-control; executive function; motivation; emotion; effort; ego depletion; replication crisis; social neuroscience; psychophysiology
The effort paradox: Exploring effort's costs and benefits
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: Cognitive control; EEG; Effort; Effort discounting; Emotion; Learned industriousness; Motivation; Neuroscience
Predicting population-level self-control from Facebook: Lessons about self-control from Big Data
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: (1) Big data; (2) Facebook; (3) Population-level self-control; (4) Machine learning; (5) Online social networks
Is negative affect necessary for cognitive control? Toward an affect alarm framework of control
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
What is ego depletion: testing the process model of self-control failure
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: self-control; willpower; cognitive control; motivation; attention; social neuroscience; psychophysiology
Can stereotype threat impair decision-making exploring the neuroaffective mechanisms of stereotype threat spillover
Principal investigators: Inzlicht, Michael
Keywords: stereotype threat; judgment and decision-making; self-control; social neuroscience; prejudice
The evolution of religion and morality
Keywords: religion; morality; evolution of religion; cognitive science of religion; prosociality; cultural evolution; gene-culture coevolution
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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