Behavioral and neural markers of self-regulation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The ability to manipulate behavior in service of long-term goals, self-regulation, has a long history of research and thought behind it. Yet despite its long history and the multitude of related concepts and measures self-regulation research suffers from a lack of transferable measures, models and interventions. One overlooked reason for this might be the focus on creating mechanistic stories while sacrificing measurement rigor. This dissertation explores the meaning of a 'marker' of self-regulation from a psychometric perspective. Our work highlights the importance of the required and varying statistical properties of a self-regulation marker depending on the research question. With respect to within-subjects analyses we present the largest comparison of behavioral self-regulation measures in their suitability for individual difference analyses using retest-reliability. Regarding between-subjects designs we show how extensive model comparisons can reveal conflicting narratives and how neural group differences might lie in properties other than the central tendency of distributions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Enkavi, Ayse Zeynep |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Poldrack, Russell A |
| Thesis advisor | Poldrack, Russell A |
| Thesis advisor | Knutson, Brian |
| Thesis advisor | Wagner, Anthony David |
| Degree committee member | Knutson, Brian |
| Degree committee member | Wagner, Anthony David |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ayse Zeynep Enkavi. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Ayse Zeynep Enkavi
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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