Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Understanding Self-Regulation: An Introduction / Kathleen D. Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister -- 2. Self-Regulation of Action and Affect / Charles S. Carver -- 3. Affect Regulation / Randy J. Larsen and Zvjezdana Prizmic -- 4. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Self-Regulation / Jane F. Banfield, Carrie L. Wyland, C. Neil Macrae, Thomas F. Munte and Todd F. Heatherton -- 5. Self-Regulatory Strength / Brandon J. Schmeichel and Roy F. Baumeister -- 6. Willpower in a Cognitive-Affective Processing System: The Dynamics of Delay of Gratification / Walter Mischel and Ozlem Ayduk -- 7. Self-Regulation and Behavior Change: Disentangling Behavioral Initiation and Behavioral Maintenance / Alexander J. Rothman, Austin S. Baldwin and Andrew W. Hertel -- 8. Automatic Self-Regulation / Grainne M. Fitzsimons and John A. Bargh -- 9. Promotion and Prevention Strategies for Self-Regulation: A Motivated Cognition Perspective / E. Tory Higgins and Scott Spiegel --

10. Self-Efficacy Beliefs on the Architecture of Personality: On Knowledge, Appraisal, and Self-Regulation / Daniel Cervone, Nilly Mor, Heather Orom, William G. Shadel and Walter D. Scott -- 11. Planning and the Implementation of Goals / Peter M. Gollwitzer, Kentaro Fujita and Gabriele Oettingen -- 12. Thinking Makes It So: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Emotion Regulation / Kevin N. Ochsner and James J. Gross -- 13. Effortful Control: Relations with Emotion Regulation, Adjustment, and Socialization in Childhood / Nancy Eisenberg, Cynthia L. Smith, Adrienne Sadovsky and Tracy L. Spinrad -- 14. Attentional Control and Self-Regulation / M. Rosario Rueda, Michael I. Posner and Mary K. Rothbart -- 15. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Self-Regulation: Taking an Evolutionary Perspective on Executive Functioning / Russell A. Barkley -- 16. Early Attachment Processes and the Development of Emotional Self-Regulation / Susan D. Calkins --

17. The Development of Self-Regulation in Young Children: Individual Characteristics and Environmental Contexts / Lisa A. McCabe, Marisol Cunnington and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- 18. Temperament and Self-Regulation / Mary K. Rothbart, Lesa K. Ellis and Michael I. Posner -- 19. The Sociometer, Self-Esteem, and the Regulation of Interpersonal Behavior / Mark R. Leary -- 20. Interpersonal Functioning Requires Self-Regulation / Kathleen D. Vohs and Natalie J. Ciarocco -- 21. Gender and Self-Regulation / Susan Nolen-Hoeksema and Colleen Corte -- 22. Self-Regulation: Context-Appropriate Balanced Attention / Donal G. MacCoon, John F. Wallace and Joseph P. Newman -- 23. Self-Regulatory Failure and Addiction / Michael A. Sayette -- 24. Alcohol and Self-Regulation / Jay G. Hull and Laurie B. Slone -- 25. The Self-Regulation of Eating: Theoretical and Practical Problems / C. Peter Herman and Janet Polivy -- 26. To Buy or Not to Buy?: Self-Control and Self-Regulatory Failure in Purchase Behavior / Ronald J. Faber and Kathleen D. Vohs -- 27. Self-Control and Sexual Behavior / Michael W. Wiederman -- 28. Self-Control and Crime / Travis Hirschi.