Do you ever feel like your mind hops from one thing to the next without warning? That pull to act on sudden ideas or speak before you’ve thought it through— that’s impulse control. Prefer to listen ...

New research finds that a certain workout plan may make you less impulsive. Experts explain how it works and what the ...

Pyromania is an impulse control disorder that gives people an intense urge to deliberately start fires. This may be for pleasure, to relieve tension, or for sexual gratification. Sometimes, people ...

President-elect Obama needs to think about how to handle the marshmallows. In the classic psychology experiment on delayed gratification, researchers gave 4-year-olds a marshmallow, then promised a ...