The regulatory easy street: Self-regulation below the self-control threshold does not consume regulatory resources

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 898-902

  vanDellen, Michelle R ^a   Hoyle, Rick H ^a   Miller, Rebecca ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ego depletion; Self control; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862796174     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.028     Document Type: Article

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