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What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control

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Though the process model of depletion may sacrifice the elegance of the resource metaphor, it paints a more precise picture of ego depletion and suggests several nuanced predictions for future research.
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According to the resource model of self-control, overriding one’s predominant response tendencies consumes and temporarily depletes a limited inner resource. Over 100 experiments have lent support ...

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Evaluating Effect Size in Psychological Research: Sense and Nonsense:

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An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance.

TL;DR: It is argued that the phenomenology of effort can be understood as the felt output of these cost/benefit computations of the costs and benefits associated with task performance and motivates reduced deployment of these computational mechanisms in the service of the present task.
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A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect

TL;DR: The size of the ego-depletion effect was small with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) that encompassed zero (d = 0.04, 95% CI [−0.07, 0.15]), and implications of the findings for the psyche depletion effect and the resource depletion model of self-control are discussed.
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Motivation and Cognitive Control: From Behavior to Neural Mechanism

TL;DR: It is argued that neuroscientific evidence plays a critical role in understanding the mechanisms by which motivation and cognitive control interact, and is advocated for a view of control function that treats it as a domain of reward-based decision making.
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Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited.

TL;DR: A competing model that develops a non-resource-based account of self-control is advanced, suggesting that apparent regulatory failures reflect the motivated switching of task priorities as people strive to strike an optimal balance between engaging cognitive labor to pursue 'have- to' goals versus preferring cognitive leisure in the pursuit of 'want-to' goals.
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Ego depletion: is the active self a limited resource?

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Self-regulation and depletion of limited resources: does self-control resemble a muscle?

TL;DR: The authors review evidence that self-control may consume a limited resource and conclude that the executive component of the self--in particular, inhibition--relies on a limited, consumable resource.
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