How Your Partner's Self-Control Affects Your Own<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/26/self-control-partner_n_5366537.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5s2HkrJNsEhFum9heSe9QA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/resize/200x200/http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1809333/original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="How Your Partner's Self-Control Affects Your Own" align="left" title="How Your Partner's Self-Control Affects Your Own" border="0" /></a>Does your partner have a lot of self-control, or does he or she always seem to be depleted of it? The answer could affect the way you make decisions. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that in a relationship or partnership where both people have high self-control levels, they make better decisions -- such as saving money, or buying healthier foods -- than when both people have low self-control levels. But what about when the self-control levels are not equally matched? Researchers from Boston College and the University of Pittsburgh found that when one person in</p><br clear="all"/>
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