Adapting to an initial self-regulatory task cancels the ego depletion effect

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 816-821

  Dang, Junhua ^a   Dewitte, Siegfried ^b   Mao, Lihua ^a   Xiao, Shanshan ^a   Shi, Yucai ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cognitive control; Ego depletion; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; EGO; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD; MOTIVATION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF CONTROL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84879435018     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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