title: Willpower is not synonymous with "executive function".
abstract: Kurzban et al. make a convincing case against the idea that willpower is a depleting resource. However, they do not advance a positive account of willpower. Rather than treating "willpower" as a synonym of "executive function," we argue that the term willpower should be designated for mechanisms individuals deploy to reduce dynamic inconsistency in their behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. johnrmon@usc.edu http://dornsife.usc.edu/labs/monterosso/ shanluo@usc.edu.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Monterosso
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D005222:Mental Fatigue / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological