Is ego depletion real? An analysis of arguments

M Friese, DD Loschelder, K Gieseler… - Personality and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
An influential line of research suggests that initial bouts of self-control increase the
susceptibility to self-control failure (ego depletion effect). Despite seemingly abundant …

No ego-depletion effect without a good control task

T Mangin, N André, A Benraiss, B Pageaux… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ego-depletion effect refers to a temporary failure of self-control exertion after first
performing an effortful task. This phenomenon has experienced a replication crisis in the …

Training willpower: Reducing costs and valuing effort

M Audiffren, N André, RF Baumeister - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The integrative model of effortful control presented in a previous article aimed to specify the
neurophysiological bases of mental effort. This model assumes that effort reflects three …

What makes for a good theory? How to evaluate a theory using the strength model of self-control as an example

K Gieseler, DD Loschelder, M Friese - Social psychology in action …, 2019 - Springer
This chapter adopts a metascientific perspective and discusses two basic questions:(1) What
are criteria for evaluating the quality of a psychological theory?(2) What are criteria for …

Do people avoid mental effort after facing a highly demanding task?

K Gieseler, M Inzlicht, M Friese - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ego depletion effects are usually examined in a sequential task paradigm in which exerting
mental effort in a first task is thought to affect performance on a subsequent self-control task …

More expectations, more disappointments: Ego depletion in uncertain promotion

J Tang, J Zhou, C Zheng, S Jiao - Journal of Retailing and Consumer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Uncertain promotion is used widely in marketing practice. This study discusses the ego
depletion differences of consumers for three types of uncertain promotions based on …

Tired and angry: Sleep, mental health, and workplace relational aggression

JM Osgood, HK Yates, AB Adler, KD Dyches… - Military …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Workplace relational aggression incurs substantial costs to organizations in the form of
reduced employee effectiveness and can exact a personal toll on the targets of the …

The role of task similarity for ego depletion: A registered report

P Primoceri, N Ramer, J Ullrich, V Job - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ego depletion refers to decrements in self-control performance resulting from prior use of
self-control. The ego depletion effect has received much research attention, but the more …

Ego-depletion increases selfish decision making, but may also increase self-conflict and regret about those decisions

JM Osgood - The Journal of social psychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The effect of ego-depletion on self-control conflict identification is the subject of ongoing
debate with only limited and indirect empirical assessment. The present research used …

A preregistered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort.

K Gieseler, DD Loschelder, V Job, M Friese - Motivation Science, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
A prominent, hotly debated idea—the “ego depletion” phenomenon—suggests that
engaging in effortful, demanding tasks leads to poorer subsequent self-control performance …