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Abstract
Abstract. Evidence on the existence of the ego depletion phenomena as well as the size of the effects and potential moderators and mediators are ambiguous. Building on a crossover design that enables superior statistical power within a single study, we investigated the robustness of the ego depletion effect between and within subjects and moderating and mediating influences of the ego depletion manipulation checks. Our results, based on a sample of 187 participants, demonstrated that (a) the between- and within-subject ego depletion effects only had negligible effect sizes and that there was (b) large interindividual variability that (c) could not be explained by differences in ego depletion manipulation checks. We discuss the implications of these results and outline a future research agenda.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mario Wenzel
- Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
- Federal Centre for Health Education, Bonn, Germany
| | - Thomas Kubiak
- Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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