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	Podcast:		Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
	Episode:		2015 Leverhulme Lecture (2): The Science of Self-Control
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:55:38
	Publish Date:		2015-03-09 08:19:43
	Description:		This lecture outlines some of the main perspectives on self-control and its loss stemming from recent work in psychology. I focus in particular on the puzzle arising from the role of glucose in successful self-control. Glucose ingestion seems to boost self-control but there is good evidence that it doesn't do this by providing fuel for the relevant mechanisms. I suggest that glucose functions as a cue of resource availability rather than fuel.
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