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- The text discusses how self-control involves competing decision-making routes, specifically between default behaviors and more deliberate, effortful choices.
- It highlights the common dilemma of whether to use limited cognitive resources for immediate needs or to invest them for potentially better long-term outcomes.
- The authors propose a framework that links various models and theories from different fields, suggesting that similar mechanisms affect decision-making across diverse situations.
Article Abstract
Many different situations related to self control involve competition between two routes to decisions: default and frugal versus more resource-intensive. Examples include habits versus deliberative decisions, fatigue versus cognitive effort, and Pavlovian versus instrumental decision making. We propose that these situations are linked by a strikingly similar core dilemma, pitting the opportunity costs of monopolizing shared resources such as executive functions for some time, against the possibility of obtaining a better outcome. We offer a unifying normative perspective on this underlying rational meta-optimization, review how this may tie together recent advances in many separate areas, and connect several independent models. Finally, we suggest that the crucial mechanisms and meta-decision variables may be shared across domains.
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