Adequacy of the Sequential-Task Paradigm in Evoking Ego-Depletion and How to Improve Detection of Ego-Depleting Phenomena

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lee, Nick ^a   Chatzisarantis, Nikos ^a   Hagger, Martin S ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

dual task; effort; methodology; self control; self regulation; sequential task; strength model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974613677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00136     Document Type: Article

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