The ego depletion effect is one of the most famous phenomena in social psychology. A
recent meta-analysis showed that after accounting for small-studies effects by using a newly …

Background Functional and healthier foods has been seen as important elements in a
healthier lifestyle. In order to obtain these products, reformulation is the main strategy to …

When people make decisions with a pre-selected choice option–a 'default'–they are more
likely to select that option. Because defaults are easy to implement, they constitute one of the …

At the center of social psychology just a few years ago, ego depletion is now widely seen as
a controversial topic, one of the chief victims of the replication crisis. Despite over 600 …

One important line of self-control research concerns the phenomenon known as ego-
depletion, the negative effect of performing a self-control task (Task 1) on performance on a …

Effort and the perception of effort (PE) have been extensively studied across disciplines,
resulting in multiple definitions. These inconsistencies block scientific progress by impeding …

Effort and the feeling of effort play important roles in many theoretical discussions, from
perception to self‐control and free will, from the nature of ownership to the nature of desert …

The current study aims to investigate corresponding self‐control and self‐control failures that
are the result of ego depletion and its impact on police officers' decision to use force. For that …

Prior research has suggested that circulating levels of glucose in the bloodstream help to
determine success at self-control. However, this idea has been challenged on multiple …

The brain's reliance on glucose as a primary fuel source is well established, but
psychological models of cognitive processing that take energy supply into account remain …