No evidence of the ego-depletion effect across task characteristics and individual differences: A pre-registered study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Lurquin, John H ^a   Michaelson, Laura E ^a   Barker, Jane E ^a   Gustavson, Daniel E ^a   Von Bastian, Claudia C ^a   Carruth, Nicholas P ^a   Miyake, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF CONTROL; VIDEORECORDING; CONTROL; EGO; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MOVIE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; DATA COLLECTION; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS;

EID: 84959440374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147770     Document Type: Article

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