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 ...

The study of impulse control and stochastic differential games represents a vibrant intersection of applied mathematics and decision theory, where strategic agents operate in settings marked by ...

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 ...

Pyromania is an impulse control disorder that involves engaging in setting fires, the tension before the act, pleasure after the act, and interest in fire-related paraphernalia. This behavior is ...

A rather well-known study out of Stanford University conducted in the 1960s and ‘70s focused on children’s impulse control, or delayed gratification. Children were put in a room at a table with a ...

Practically everyone (except maybe nuns) knows what it's like to do something and then almost immediately regret it. Maybe it's finding yourself five episodes deep into the show You at 2 a.m. on a ...

Like humans, chickens display different personalities and some can display impulse control that is comparable to monkeys. New research suggests that birds that tend to stick close to the coup are more ...