Stress & Self-Control Costs
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Official title
Neural and Affective Mechanisms Underlying Prospective Self-control Costs
Brief summary
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Self-control failures are a universal challenge for healthy and clinical populations. Recent work suggests these failures may arise from excessive cognitive costs associated with exercising self-control, yet the mechanisms underlying these costs are unknown. To address this, the investigators will use a validated decision-making task that measures how much individuals will pay (from a study endowment) to restrict access to tempting rewards that may lead to self-control failures. The investigators will examine these costs to identify their cognitive, neural and affective mechanisms. First, the investigators will identify the cognitive and computational mechanism that gives rise to self-control costs. Second, the investigators will characterize the neural correlates of self-control costs and identify neural mediators and connectivity patterns stemming from these costs. Finally, the investigators will examine how different classes of stressors (physical, social, or lifetime stress) shape the behavioral and neural representations of self-control costs.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05795179
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 300 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Cold-Pressor Task (CPT) Behavioral
- Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) Behavioral
- Modified Non-Stress CPT Behavioral
- Modified Non-Stress TSST Behavioral
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Device
Behavioral · Device
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 70 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 30, 2024
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2027
- Completion
- Mar 31, 2028
- Last update posted
- Mar 10, 2026
2024 – 2028
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU Langone Health | New York | New York | 10016 | Recruiting |
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- Last update posted Mar 10, 2026 · Synced Sep 1, 2026
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