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Stress and imagining future selves: resolve in the hot/cool framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2021

Janet Metcalfe Open the ORCID record for Janet Metcalfe [Opens in a new window]  and
William James Jacobs
Janet Metcalfe
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Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 jm348@columbia.edu https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/janet-metcalfe
William James Jacobs
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Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. wjj@arizona.edu https://psychology.arizona.edu/users/w-jake-jacobs
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Abstract

Although Ainslie dismisses the hot/cool framework as pertaining only to suppression, it actually also has interesting implications for resolve. Resolve focally involves access to our future selves. This access is a cool system function linked to episodic memory. Thus, factors negatively affecting the cool system, such as stress, are predicted to impact two seemingly unrelated capabilities: willpower and episodic memory.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e49
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