Adequacy of the sequential-task paradigm in evoking ego-depletion and how to improve detection of ego-depleting phenomena

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Lee, Nick
Chatzisarantis, Nikos
Hagger, Martin S
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2016
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Self-control is defined as individuals' capacity to alter, modify, change, or override impulses, desires, and habitual responses (Baumeister, 2002; Muraven et al., 2005). Capacity for self-control is important and adaptive. Without it, we would be “slaves” to habits and impulses and unable to engage in sustained, goal-directed behavior. Loss of self-control has been shown to be related to numerous maladaptive health, social, and economic outcomes (Baumeister, 2002). Contemporary theories indicate that human capacity for self-control is limited (Baumeister et al., 1998). According to the strength model of self-control, performance on tasks requiring self-control draws energy from a general, unitary, and limited “internal” resource (Baumeister et al., 1998; Muraven et al., 1998). Because this resource is finite, the model predicts that engaging in tasks requiring self-control would lead to the depletion of the resource and reduced performance on subsequent self-control tasks. The state of self-control resource depletion is termed “ego-depletion.”

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Frontiers in Psychology

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7

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© 2016 Lee, Chatzisarantis and Hagger. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Cognitive and computational psychology

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Psychology, Multidisciplinary

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self-regulation

self-control

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Lee, N; Chatzisarantis, N; Hagger, MS, Adequacy of the sequential-task paradigm in evoking ego-depletion and how to improve detection of ego-depleting phenomena, Frontiers in Psychology, 2016, 7, pp. 136

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