Project

Claire Kelly, ESRC PhD Scholar, Research Associate

Previous research has shown that completing two sequential self-control tasks is difficult and typically a temporary deterioration in self-control performance in the second task is observed. My research aims to examine why this is and uses eye tracking as a way of measuring self-control ability and the factors that influence this behaviour. Specifically we explore whether having higher relative to lower levels of motivation has an ameliorating effect on a temporary deterioration in self-control as well as investigating whether a physiological resource such as glucose actually fuels self-control, leading to the successful application of self-control over time.