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| Matthew T GailliotSummaryAffiliation: Florida State University Country: USA Publications
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Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death: Effects of self-control depletion and trait self-control on thoughts and fears of dyingMatthew T Gailliot
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:49-62. 2006..These results suggest that self-regulation is a key intrapsychic mechanism for alleviating troublesome thoughts and feelings about mortality...- Self-regulation and sexual restraint: dispositionally and temporarily poor self-regulatory abilities contribute to failures at restraining sexual behaviorMatthew T Gailliot
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:173-86. 2007..Furthermore, there was some evidence that the effects of diminished self-control were strongest among those with the strongest sexual desires (men and sexually unrestricted individuals) and among couples with less sexual experience... 
The physiology of willpower: linking blood glucose to self-controlMatthew T Gailliot
Florida State University, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 11:303-27. 2007..Self-control thus appears highly susceptible to glucose. Self-control benefits numerous social and interpersonal processes. Glucose might therefore be related to a broad range of social behavior...- Increasing self-regulatory strength can reduce the depleting effect of suppressing stereotypesMatthew T Gailliot
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:281-94. 2007..These findings indicate that self-regulatory exercise can improve resistance to self-regulatory depletion and, consequently, people can suppress stereotypes without suffering subsequent decrements in task performance... - Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: willpower is more than a metaphorMatthew T Gailliot
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:325-36. 2007..Self-control requires a certain amount of glucose to operate unimpaired. A single act of self-control causes glucose to drop below optimal levels, thereby impairing subsequent attempts at self-control... - Depletion makes the heart grow less helpful: helping as a function of self-regulatory energy and genetic relatednessC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:1653-62. 2008..Helping requires self-regulatory energy to manage conflict between selfish and prosocial motivations-a metabolically expensive process-and thus depleted energy reduces helping and increased energy (glucose) increases helping... - Intrasexual vigilance: the implicit cognition of romantic rivalryJon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:74-87. 2009..At a broader conceptual level, this research illustrates the utility of integrating social cognitive and evolutionary approaches to psychological science... - Dispositional anxiety blocks the psychological effects of powerJon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, 1107 West Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 38:1383-95. 2012..Although power enhanced people's perceptions of reward, this effect was eliminated by high levels of dispositional anxiety. This research provides insight into how, and in whom, power promotes approach and agentic behavior... - Can't take my eyes off you: Attentional adhesion to mates and rivalsJon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:389-401. 2007..Findings are consistent with a functionalist approach to motivation and social cognition and highlight the utility of integrating evolutionary and social cognitive perspectives... - Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited: the roles of implicit and explicit self-esteem in mortality salience effectsBrandon J Schmeichel
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4235, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:1077-87. 2009.... - Selective attention to signs of success: social dominance and early stage interpersonal perceptionJon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4301, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:488-501. 2008..This research demonstrates the utility of examining early-in-the-stream social cognition through the functionalist lens of adaptive thinking... - Power, risk, and the status quo: does power promote riskier or more conservative decision making?Jon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306 4301, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:451-62. 2007..Findings suggest that although power may generally lead to riskier decisions, power may lead to more conservative decisions among power-motivated individuals, especially when the status quo is perceived to be in jeopardy... - Sweetened blood cools hot tempers: physiological self-control and aggressionC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Kastle Hall, Lexington, USA
Aggress Behav 37:73-80. 2011..All four studies suggest that a spoonful of sugar helps aggressive and violent behaviors go down... - Evidence for attentional bias in women exhibiting bulimotypic symptomsJon K Maner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 1270, USA
Int J Eat Disord 39:55-61. 2006..In the current study, we examined the relation between bulimotypic symptoms and biases in attention to other men and women... - Mortality salience increases adherence to salient norms and valuesMatthew T Gailliot
Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:993-1003. 2008..g., walking through a cemetery) increased self-reported and actual helping behavior only when the cultural value of helping was salient. These results suggest that people may adhere to norms and values so as to manage awareness of death... - Ideological and personal zeal reactions to threat among people with high self-esteem: motivated promotion focusIan McGregor
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:1587-99. 2007..Ideological and personal zeal reflect motivated promotion focus reactions that are rewarding because they decrease the motivational relevance, regulatory fit, and subjective salience of threats...