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dc.contributor.authorDahm, Theresa
dc.contributor.authorNeshat-Doost, Hamid Taher
dc.contributor.authorGolden, Ann-Marie
dc.contributor.authorHorn, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorHagger, Martin
dc.contributor.authorDalgleish, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-15T23:43:00Z
dc.date.available2017-11-15T23:43:00Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0026351
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/171944
dc.description.abstractSelf-regulation depletion (SRD), or ego-depletion, refers to decrements in self-regulation performance immediately following a different self-regulation-demanding activity. There are now over a hundred studies reporting SRD across a broad range of tasks and conditions. However, most studies have used young student samples. Because prefrontal brain regions thought to subserve self-regulation do not fully mature until 25 years of age, it is possible that SRD effects are confined to younger populations and are attenuated or disappear in older samples. We investigated this using the Stroop color task as an SRD induction and an autobiographical memory task as the outcome measure. We found that younger participants (<25 years) were susceptible to depletion effects, but found no support for such effects in an older group (40–65 years). This suggests that the widely-reported phenomenon of SRD has important developmental boundary conditions casting doubt on claims that it represents a general feature of human cognition.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrome26351-1
dc.relation.ispartofpagetoe26351-4
dc.relation.ispartofissue10
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPLoS One
dc.relation.ispartofvolume6
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther psychology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode529999
dc.titleAge shall not weary us: Deleterious effects of self-regulation depletion are specific to younger adults
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.rights.copyright© 2011 Dahm et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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gro.griffith.authorHagger, Martin S.


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