ABSTRACT
It seems that no literature within psychology is complete these days without some data on the neural correlates of the topic. This is true of self-control, which is certainly above the mean and might even be an outlier in terms of the exceptionally large quantity of relevant neuroscientific data. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a useful framework for thinking about those data rather than to provide a comprehensive review of them. Another goal is to critically evaluate the possible contributions of neuroscience to the study of self-control.
