Highlighting summer's enhanced opportunities for healthy behavior has become a tradition for this column. In keeping with tradition, here is my annual installment – one that zeroes in on the core ...

Physical and emotional wellness and balanced living—not depriving yourself of the things you want but, at the same time, not overindulging—are goals most people strive for but sometimes have ...

Self-control, the ability to override or change internal impulses for the benefit of longer-term, strategic goals, has always been treasured as an admirable human trait. For example, Confucius taught ...

SeDoMoCha Elementary and Middle School hosted a special schoolwide assembly on Dec. 19 to recognize students in kindergarten ...

People with incredible self-control aren’t relying on grit, guilt, or endless motivation. Instead, they quietly avoid popular ...

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the ...

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a New York-based science journalist whose work has appeared in Health, Live Science, and Discover Magazine, among other publications. She holds a master's degree in psychology ...

You can talk about self-control as the capacity to override impulses, resist temptations, and overturn dominant responses, to advance long-term over short-term goals, and to develop efficient, ...

Nicole McDermott has worked in the creative content space for the last decade as a writer, editor and director. Her work has been featured on TIME Healthland, Prevention, Shape, USA Today, HuffPost, ...