Does Distance from the Equator Predict Self-Control? : Lessons from the Human Penguin Project
Ijzerman, Hans; Čolić, Marija; Hennecke, Marie; u. a. (2017): Does Distance from the Equator Predict Self-Control? : Lessons from the Human Penguin Project, in: Behavioral and brain sciences : BBS ; an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary, New York, NY [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, Nr. 40 (2017), e86, doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001035.
We comment on the proposition “that lower temperatures and especially greater seasonal variation in temperature call for individuals and societies to adopt … a greater degree of self-control” (Van Lange et al., sect. 3, para. 4) for which we cannot find empirical support in a large data set with data-driven analyses. After providing greater nuance in our theoretical review, we suggest that Van Lange et al. revisit their model with an eye toward the social determinants of self-control.
