Second, self-control and hyperopia

Second, self-control and hyperopia differ in the emotions that restrictive actions generate in retrospect. A key component of hyperopia is a sense of regret or missing out on past forgone indulgences (Kivetz and Keinan 2006). High self-control individuals, rather than seeing past restriction as regrettable, have been characterized as those who successfully balance short- and long-term options and are unlikely to report negative feelings such as life dissatisfaction or shame when evaluating past decisions (Tangney et al. 2004). That is, for high self-control consumers, it may be possible to restrict behavior without feeling regret in the long term. Thus, they may not rate their own sense of regret over missing out as particularly high and therefore fail to be truly “hyperopic.”