Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
2. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
3. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Abstract
Inhibition is considered a process essential to goal pursuit and as a result has become a central construct in many disciplines in psychology and adjacent fields. Despite a century’s worth of debate, however, there is little consensus about what inhibition actually is. We suggest that it is time to abandon the concept of inhibition as it currently stands, given that its definition has been problematic. Instead, we propose an alternative framework in which inhibition is the target outcome, rather than a process to obtain a goal. We leverage existing process models to elucidate how people can achieve an inhibition goal by actively regulating impulses and desires. Although the field has been led astray by classifying inhibition as a process, our framework is intended to provide greater practical utility to the study of goal pursuit moving forward.
Funder
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
University of Toronto Scarborough
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