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Showing papers on "Ego depletion published in 1990"


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TL;DR: This paper examined the hypotheses that extrinsic rewards avert attention from ego threat, enhancing persistence after failure, and showed that performance impairment after failure is greater when tasks have high ego value, but undermine continuing motivation on other tasks.
Abstract: We examined the hypotheses that (a) extrinsic rewards avert attention from ego threat, enhancing persistence after failure: (b) performance impairment after failure is greater when tasks have high ego value; and (c) extrinsic rewards reduce ego concern and thereby enhance continuing motivation on high ego-involving tasks, but undermine continuing motivation on other tasks

36 citations


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TL;DR: Ego states are not meant to be theoretical concepts; they are phenomenological realities as discussed by the authors, and the more "real" ego states become to the client and the therapist, the more clinically effect...
Abstract: Ego states are not meant to be theoretical concepts; they are phenomenological realities (Berne, 1961). The more “real” ego states become to the client and the therapist, the more clinically effect...

13 citations