Roy F. Baumeister

TL;DR: It is shown that ego depletion moderates the effects of many traits on behavior, particularly such that wide differences in socially disapproved motivations produce greater differences in behavior when ego depletion weakens the customary inner restraints.

TL;DR: These findings contradict the popular view that low self-esteem causes aggression and point instead toward threatened egotism as an important cause.

TL;DR: The authors found that self-presentation under challenging conditions or according to counter-normative patterns (presenting oneself modestly to strangers, boastfully to friends, contrary to gender norms, to a skeptical audience, or while being a racial token) led to impaired self-regulation later.

TL;DR: Successful performance at complex thinking may rely on limited regulatory resources, and depletion of the self's regulatory resources was manipulated by having some participants initially regulate attention or emotion.

TL;DR: The authors found that positive mood or emotion can counteract ego depletion after an initial act of self-regulation, participants who watched a comedy video or received a surprise gift self-regulated on various tasks as well as non-depleted participants and significantly better than participants who experienced a sad mood induction, a neutral mood stimulus, or a brief rest period.