1 control over your emotions and actions; self-control:
You need to exercise a little self-restraint.
In biological and social terms it is a noble and unselfish act of individual self-restraint.
It is also argued that the development of attitudes of tolerance and self-restraint was seen as a necessary condition for the public sphere.
This cultural inhibition works either through the woman's self-restraint or through social pressure.
It is of more than passing interest to observe that a court which is governed by a sense of self-restraint does not thereby become paralyzed.
Further, his self-restraint was seen to be a token of his fitness to stand above his social inferiors.
More importantly, sophisticated akratics are better placed than the state to choose appropriate methods of self-restraint.
However, the self-restraint model fails to provide a mechanism for reproductive inhibition by scent marks.
The more intense the self-restraint that is called for, the more intense must be the desire calling for restraint.
