The British journal of social psychology
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Carrying on or giving in: the role of automatic processes in overcoming ego depletion.
Research has shown that repeated exercise of self-control leads to impaired performance on subsequent self-control tasks, a phenomenon labelled ego depletion. The current research investigates the influence of automatic processes on self-control performance. ⋯ If such a prime was absent, self-control performance of depleted participants decreased indicating ego depletion. Using a different manipulation, these findings were replicated in Study 2.