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- Many societal issues like health and sustainability are often seen as problems of lacking self-control, where people fail to resist tempting options that hinder their long-term goals.
- The authors propose a new perspective, framing these challenges instead as "too little pleasure," suggesting that enhancing pleasure can aid self-control.
- They present evidence that pleasure can help initiate and sustain long-term goals, as well as resist immediate temptations, encouraging a shift in how we approach these societal issues.
Article Abstract
Many societal challenges, for example regarding health and sustainability, are conceptualized as problems of too little self-control: people's long-term goals are jeopardized (e.g., healthy weight, small carbon footprint) because one cannot resist attractive alternatives (e.g., chocolate cake, vacation in the sun). Here, we introduce a different way of conceptualizing those challenges, namely as problems of 'too little pleasure'. We review empirical evidence showing that pleasure can support three central aspects of self-control: the initiation of long-term goal behavior, persistence in long-term goal pursuit, and resisting tempting alternatives. We close by encouraging the field to change perspectives and to include pleasure in the solution of problems that have mainly been studied as a matter of too little self-control and too much pleasure.
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