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Born to choose: the origins and value of the need for control

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Leotti, Lauren A., Iyengar, Sheena S., Ochsner, Kevin N.·2010·Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Belief in one's ability to exert control over the environment and to produce desired results is essential for an individual's wellbeing. It has repeatedly been argued that perception of control is not only desirable, but is also probably a psychological and biological necessity. In this article, we review the literature supporting this claim and present evidence of a biological basis for the need for control and for choice-that is, the means by which we exercise control over the environment. Converging evidence from animal research, clinical studies and neuroimaging suggests that the need for control is a biological imperative for survival, and a corticostriatal network is implicated as the neural substrate of this adaptive behavior.

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Authors: Leotti, L. A., Iyengar, S. S., & Ochsner, K. N.
Affiliations: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
Columbia University (US)
Corresponding author: Leotti, Lauren A.
ORCID: Leotti, Lauren A.
Ochsner, Kevin N.
Venue: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2010-10
Volume: 14
Issue: 10
Pages: 457-463
ISSN: 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.08.001
PMC: PMC2944661
OpenAlex: W2076616854
Cited by: 717
References: 86
Citations by year: 2026: 45 · 2025: 70 · 2024: 99 · 2023: 57 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 67 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 35 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 20
FWCI: 1.30
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
Locations: Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076137, MH076137)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA022541, DA-022541, F32DA027308)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD069178)
Topics: Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Free Will and Agency
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords: need for control, perceived control, corticostriatal network, neural correlates, survival, well-being, animal studies, neuroimaging
MeSH terms: Adaptation, Biological, Animals, Cerebral Cortex, Choice Behavior, Corpus Striatum, Humans, Nerve Net, Social Environment

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