Ego depletion is the idea that self-control or willpower draws upon a limited pool of conscious mental resources that can be taxed to exhaustion when used constantly with no reprieve. Once these resources are depleted, a person's capacity for further self-control is said to be reduced until the resource has had a chance to recover; the concept has also been a prominent subject of psychology's replication crisis, with later studies disputing how reliably the original depletion effect reproduces, a debate this atlas records as unresolved rather than settled.
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Core ClaimSelf-control or willpower draws upon conscious mental resources that can be taxed to exhaustion with constant use 1 Classification
Type of PhenomenonSocial or Interpersonal Phenomenon 1 Connections
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1. Ego depletion - Wikipedia
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self-control or willpower draws upon conscious mental resources that can be taxed to exhaustion when in constant use with no reprieve
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Ego depletion is therefore a critical topic in experimental psychology, specifically social psychology, because it is a mechanism that contributes to the understanding of the processes of human self-control.
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