Retail therapy can be an expensive coping mechanism. Here’s why impulsive shopping is so hard to resist. Have you ever walked into a store with a simple grocery list in hand, only to emerge with a ...

Any time you click on a targeted ad and reach for your wallet, or grab something that caught your eye at the supermarket checkout, you are making an impulse buy. And few of us, it seems, have much ...

Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by difficulties controlling aggressive or antisocial impulses. Because they can involve physical violence, theft, or ...

Do you ever get the feeling your brain is always racing ahead of your best intentions? Impulse control can be a struggle, especially as a neurodivergent woman. Quick reactions can create problems that ...

The ability to delay gratification, or to wait for something you really want, is impulse control. One groundbreaking study out of Stanford University found that impulse control was linked to greater ...

The ability to delay gratification, or to wait for something you really want, is impulse control. The famous Stanford Marshmallow Test found a connection between impulse control and greater well-being ...