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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Temptation."”.
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Temptation in Shakespeare's Plays
Although temptation appears in all drama, every age defines problems of choice and conscience in unique ways, thus explaining temptation with unique concepts. Although now we analyze problems of moral choice in terms of the modern psychology to which we are accustomed, the Renaissance interpreted …
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Essays on Pension Policies and Temptation Preferences
… preferences, in which households experience temptation to over-consume in the near term and must exercise costly self-control to save for retirement. First, I consider the role of means testing a public pension and find that the benefits of the means test are smaller when self-control …
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Nothing More Delicious: Food as Temptation in Children's Literature
… little attention has been paid to the food-as-temptation story in children’s literature. In Lewis Carroll’s <em>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</em>, C.S. Lewis’ <em>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe</em>, Roald Dahl’s <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</em>, and Neil Gaiman’s …
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Resistance to Temptation: Inhibitory and Disinhibitory Effects of Models
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Self-Curated Temptation: Attention to Alternatives in the Age of Social Media
… commitment, are better equipped to ignore the temptations of alternatives to their romantic partner. However, the majority of the research on this topic has focused on self-reported recall of relationship alternatives or responses to stimuli curated by others. Recent technological advances and …
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Resisting the Partisan Temptation: Public Opinion on Election Laws in a Polarized Era
<p>A commonly accepted model of public attitudes toward election rules assumes that citizens follow the cues of their preferred party’s elites and support rules that would benefit that party in elections. However, a separate literature on procedural fairness suggests that the public places a high …
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The Effect of Punishment Threat on Children's Ability to Resist Temptation to Transgress and Lie
Children's response to a resistance-to-temptation (RTT) task was investigated under three punishment threat conditions: negative consequence, removing an anticipated reward, and no explicit punishment. Ninety first and second graders participated in the RTT task and seventy-three parents completed …
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The nature of temptation and its role in the development of moral virtue: an exploration in analytic moral theology
… have paid little attention to the phenomenon of temptation and its role in developing virtue. Indeed, little analytic work has been done on the nature of temptation. This study aims to fill this gap in moral philosophy and theology by offering an analytic moral conception of temptation and …
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How Want vs Need Self-Talk Facilitates Goal-Directed Behavior
… can be a challenge, whether it involves avoiding temptations or striving toward long-term goals. When attempting to exert self-control, the way people address themselves (e.g., self-talk) is important. This study examined how self-talk strategies want and need affected behavioral self-control …
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A Manipulation of Cognitive Restriction and Goal-Conflict: Mechanisms Underlying the Disinhibition Effect of Eating Behavior
… goal would come at the expense of an alluring temptation. The goal-conflict model of eating (Stroebe, van Koningsbruggen, Papies, & Aarts, 2013) suggests that restrained eaters (i.e., chronic dieters) experience self-regulation failure (e.g., overeating, or disinhibition) due to inner competing …
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Essays on Self-Control
… or not self-control</p><p>is costly, the form of temptation, and the affects different assumptions</p><p>about costly self-control and temptation have on optimal borrowing</p><p>and saving mechanisms. The second chapter shows that costly self-control</p><p>and temptation can be differentiated from …
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
… places between the first and second biblical temptations. I soon determined, however, that the banquet is not a temptation concerned with food as an end but as a means. I believe that Milton intends the feast to be a temptation to glory disguised as a temptation of temperance. Satan offers …
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What Happens When You Let the Hunger Games Loose? An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling as a Behavior Change for Good Strategy in the StepUp Program
Temptation bundling, an intervention involving the coupling of instantly gratifying activities with activities that provide long-term benefits but require some exertion of willpower, is a novel behavior change strategy. To date, despite the short and long-term benefits of such an approach, only one …
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Motivation and Morality in Intimate Partner Violence: A Partial Test of Situational Action Theory
… is explored for both the provocation and temptation motivation pathways defined in SAT. This research uses a mixed-methods approach of a questionnaire and semi-structured interview vignettes to address the three aims: (a) to explore the relationship between motivation and IPV perpetration …
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An investigation into sustainable strawberry production using alternative growing systems
… strawberry seeds by considering two varieties, ‘Temptation’ and ‘Florian,’ in different growing substrates (rockwool with and without nutrients and compost). The outcomes revealed that the change in substrate positively affects seed germination. Rockwool with and without nutrients depicted better …
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Garden Doors: Tempting The Virtuous Heroine In Clarissa And Betsy Thoughtless
… and comedy, but from the differing views of temptation. I wish to investigate the possible didactic messages behind these alternate endings. In investigating the two treatments of the temptation of the virtuous heroine, I hope to provide new material by asserting the importance of flight from …
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An analysis of transtheoretical stages of change in the formation of a spiritual discipline
… weigh against cons), processes relied upon, and temptation response in the stages of change when the change in question is that of the development of a spiritual discipline. The TTM has been used primarily to describe behavior change in health related habit modification. The literature shows …
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Towards a Philosophy of Least Violence
… over the course of his storied career. Our temptation to read him in this way is encouraged, not only by an extensive and growing body of secondary literature in the Anglophone world, but by Vattimo’s own consistent focus on weakening as represent an alternative to the strong and violent …
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