A new perspective on the interplay between self-control and cognitive performance: Modeling progressive depletion patterns.

Exerting self-control in a first task weakens self-control performance in a subsequent unrelated task (ego depletion). In self-control research new strategies are required to investigate the ego-depletion effect, which has recently been shown to be more fragile than previously assumed. Moreover, the...

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Main Authors: Christoph Lindner, Gabriel Nagy, Wolfgang Andreas Ramos Arhuis, Jan Retelsdorf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5491132?pdf=render