The bitter truth about sugar and willpower: The limited evidential value of the glucose model of ego depletion
The idea behind ego depletion is that willpower draws on a limited mental resource, so that engaging in an act of self-control impairs self-control in subsequent tasks. To present ego depletion as more than a convenient metaphor, some researchers have proposed that glucose is the limited resource th...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2016
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