Further Confusion in the Study of Self-Regulation: Comments on Cervone, Shadel, Smith, and Fiori

We applaud Cervone, Shadel, Smith, and Fiori's goal to clarify the self-regulation literature and to show how intra-individual personality studies might help do this. Unfortunately, we do not believe the paper achieves its goal. Rather it only confuses matters further. This is due to the lack of clear definitions or explanation of key concepts and theories, false claims about certain personality measures and other issues, confusions about the relation between process and content, the offering as new insights ideas which are, in fact, not new, and the failure to make clear how intra-individual studies would actually be used.