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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
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Ego depletion - Wikipedia
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Ego depletion is the idea that self-control or willpower draws upon conscious mental resources that can be taxed to exhaustion when in constant use with no reprieve (with the word "ego" used in the psychoanalytic sense rather than the colloquial sense).
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- Psychological Phenomena, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
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