Ego depletion (limited willpower) turns out not to be true [0]. It could not be replicated and is no longer considered how willpower works. > Results from the

Ego depletion (limited willpower) turns out not to be true [0]. It could not be replicated and is no longer considered how willpower works. > Results from the current multilab registered replication of the ego-depletion effect provide evidence that, if there is any effect, it is close to zero. [1] > Taken all together, experiments conducted at 24 different labs showed no signs whatsoever of Baumeister and Tice’s original effect. [2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_controversy_and_conflicting_meta_analyses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_... [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691616652873 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916166528... [2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...