Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1252-1265

  Baumeister, Roy F ^a   Bratslavsky, Ellen ^a   Muraven, Mark ^a   Tice, Dianne M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; EGO; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); EGO; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VOLITION;

EID: 0032063793     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1252     Document Type: Article

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