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Whether decision fatigue is a real thing has been called in to question: https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_

Whether decision fatigue is a real thing has been called in to question: https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_stor...

bitshaker 3y ago
Doesn’t matter. Changing via willpower and context cues is quite difficult. Identity change is the best, most lasting way.
refactor_master 3y ago
What am I going to do with all my identical shirts now!
Supermancho 3y ago
Anyone can make a decision without much thought, which most humans do at every moment of their existence. Making informed decisions takes conscious thought, much less keeping the decisions equally informed. There's only so much of that you can do and humans are particularly bad at recognizing the subtle decline in quality of thought. There's no question at all.
arp242 3y ago
According to the article "hundreds" of experiments showed an effect. Then it goes on to talk about the reproducibility crisis, but in this case it has been reproduced, no? At least, that's what the article itself says. Link to actual debunk study is dead, but "it now appears that ego depletion could be completely bogus" seems too strong. Certainly in my own experience something like ego depletion is very real – maybe not exactly as described, but you do run out of bandwidth at some point, so to speak. One of the reasons this is hard to verify experimentally is that, in my personal experience, everything is fine up to a point, after which it all breaks down. You can't easily re-create that in an experiment.
- criddell 3y ago
  In my experience, it seems very real as well. The Wikipedia page has a pretty good rundown on the criticism and existing studies. From my understanding, it isn’t clear that the studies that have been done indicate any depletion effect at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_controversy_and_conflicting_meta_analyses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_...

bitshaker 3y ago

Doesn’t matter. Changing via willpower and context cues is quite difficult. Identity change is the best, most lasting way.

refactor_master 3y ago

What am I going to do with all my identical shirts now!

Supermancho 3y ago

Anyone can make a decision without much thought, which most humans do at every moment of their existence. Making informed decisions takes conscious thought, much less keeping the decisions equally informed. There's only so much of that you can do and humans are particularly bad at recognizing the subtle decline in quality of thought. There's no question at all.

arp242 3y ago

According to the article "hundreds" of experiments showed an effect. Then it goes on to talk about the reproducibility crisis, but in this case it has been reproduced, no? At least, that's what the article itself says. Link to actual debunk study is dead, but "it now appears that ego depletion could be completely bogus" seems too strong. Certainly in my own experience something like ego depletion is very real – maybe not exactly as described, but you do run out of bandwidth at some point, so to speak. One of the reasons this is hard to verify experimentally is that, in my personal experience, everything is fine up to a point, after which it all breaks down. You can't easily re-create that in an experiment.

criddell 3y ago
In my experience, it seems very real as well. The Wikipedia page has a pretty good rundown on the criticism and existing studies. From my understanding, it isn’t clear that the studies that have been done indicate any depletion effect at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_controversy_and_conflicting_meta_analyses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_...