[[File:Hand and cookies.jpg|thumbnail|right|300px|Self-control is the ability to resist and/or actively avoid one's temptations and impulses. ]]
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[[File:Hand and cookies.jpg|thumbnail|right|300px|Self-control is the ability to resist and/or actively avoid one's temptations and impulses.<ref><ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-control Self-Control - Webster-Merriam dictionary]</ref><ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886914005339 ''Trait self-control and the avoidance of temptation''], ''Personality and Individual Differences''. Volume 74, February 2015, Pages 12-15</ref><ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-control Self-Control - Webster-Merriam dictionary]</ref>]]
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'''Self-Control''' is defined by the Meriam Dictionary as ''restraint exercised over one's own impulses, emotions, or desires".<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-control Self-Control - Webster-Merriam dictionary]</ref> See also: [[Will (psychology)]] and [[Free will]]
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'''Self-Control''' is defined by the Meriam Dictionary as ''restraint exercised over one's own impulses, emotions, or desires".<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-control Self-Control - Webster-Merriam dictionary]</ref> Self-control can also avoid actively avoiding temptations (For example, if one has a problem with eating a healthy diet, one does not walk into a fast-food restaurant).<ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886914005339 ''Trait self-control and the avoidance of temptation''], ''Personality and Individual Differences''. Volume 74, February 2015, Pages 12-15</ref><ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-control Self-Control - Webster-Merriam dictionary]</ref> See also: [[Will (psychology)]] and [[Free will]]