Clearly, it is the book part that appears most effortful.

Higher quality parenting was associated with better effortful control in 4-year-olds.

And with a big effortful grunt he came at me again.

As is also true of her fellow performers, she makes the effortful look easy.

That's a pose of resistance, but not a particularly effortful one.

"Can't you do better than that88he said in a voice that was mostly effortful breath.

Abnormal levels of positive and negative affect can be increased by low effortful control.

The individual is aware and effortful in using self-regulation strategies.

There was a sound like effortful grunting in the direction of the hills.

Temperamental effortful control can influence addiction in a number of ways.

Dual process theories at one time considered any single action/thought as either being effortful or controlled.

The performance as a whole sounded effortful and ponderous, but at least it was unified.

Rothbart suggests that effortful control is dependent on the development of executive attention skills in the early years.

Effortful control shows stability from infancy into the school years and also predicts conscience.

His singing seemed effortful yet produced a distinctly ungenerous tone.

Like Covenant's, all of her actions seemed stilted and effortful; expensive.

Even so, the attempt feels more ennobling than effortful.

Surprisingly, the result is not a manic, effortful show of acting prowess.

Ignorance: Parties will engage in more effortful communication when a lack of shared knowledge is notable.

Through the use of schemata, most everyday situations do not require effortful processing.

In contrast, decisions driven by system 2 are deliberate, conscious reasoning, slow and effortful.

His slow, effortful journey seemed all but hopeless.

If her dancing seemed a little more effortful, it certainly didn't bother her cheering audience.

She gave him an effortful smile and followed Shalkan up the steep incline.

Perhaps this was a matter of the Ailey dancers being able to make the effortful look almost too effortless.