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Time to Set a New Research Agenda for Ego Depletion and Self-Control

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The conceptualization of self-control capacity as a domain-general limited resource, and the accompanying state of low self-control resource, known as the ego depletion effect, has received considerable attention in social psychology literature. The effect has also been widely publicized in popular media largely due to its elegant simplicity and intuitive appeal. Since its inception (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven, & Tice, 1998; Muraven, Tice, & Baumeister, 1998), the ego depletion effect has been a “hot” topic of research and has stimulated hundreds of laboratory studies to test the effect (Hagger, Wood, Stiff, & Chatzisarantis, 2010).

Source: Social Psychology

DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000399

Authors: Junhua Dang, Martin S. Hagger

Institutions: Uppsala University, University of California, Merced, University of Jyväskylä

Language: English

Topic: Behavioral Health and Interventions

Subfield: Applied Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Vetenskapsrådet, Business Finland

Awards: Why self-control fails and how to improve self-control, G712881263