Perhaps you know someone who tends to be impulsive — and it gets in their way. They act first and think second, often choosing unhealthy behaviors and perhaps getting stuck in a perpetual pattern of ...

Genetic analysis of impulsive traits reveals heterogeneous underpinnings, challenging the notion of a single construct. The genetic underpinnings of impulsivity are heterogeneous, suggesting that it ...

Danny, a 43-year-old store manager, was stopped by the police for doing an illegal U-turn across a busy highway. As he explained, "Our lanes weren’t moving at all, and it was going to take forever to ...

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that adolescents who prefer to sleep and wake up later ("night owls") reported greater impulsivity than those who prefer to sleep and ...

In a recent study published in the Scientific Reports Journal, researchers examined the relationships between emotional constructs such as irritability, impulsivity, and anger. They investigated how ...

Richard Tunney receives funding from the Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling. Inflation is running high around the globe, largely fuelled by Russia’s war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic. As a ...

This schematic depicts the delay-discounting task used to measure impulsivity level. Rats chose either a small reward delivered with no delay or a large reward available with a delay of up to 60 ...