It is premature to regard the ego-depletion effect as "Too Incredible"

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Hagger, Martin S ^a   D Chatzisarantis, Nikos L ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incredibility index; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Self control; Self regulation; Strength model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899700247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00298     Document Type: Note

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