ArticleSocial psychological and personality science2021
A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect.
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36 authors at 17 institutions in 11 countries.
Junhua DangDepartment of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0194-8608
Paul BarkerSocial Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Germany.
Anna BaumertMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany.
Margriet BentvelzenAmsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Elliot BerkmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Nita BuchholzDepartment of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Mainz, Germany.
Jacek BucznyDepartment of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Zhansheng ChenDepartment of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Valeria De CristofaroDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza," Italy.
Lianne de VriesDepartment of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Siegfried DewitteBehavioral Engineering Group, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Mauro GiacomantonioDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza," Italy.
Ran GongDepartment of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, China.
Maaike HomanAmsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Roland ImhoffSocial and Legal Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0807-463X
Ismaharif IsmailDepartment of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Lile JiaDepartment of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Thomas KubiakHeath Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Florian LangeBehavioral Engineering Group, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Dan-Yang LiDepartment of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, China.
Jordan LivingstonDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Rita LudwigDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Angelo PannoDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza," Italy.
Joshua PearmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1529-2061
Niklas RassiInstitute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Helgi B SchiöthDepartment of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Manfred SchmittDepartment of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Mainz, Germany.
A Timur SevincerInstitute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Jiaxin ShiDepartment of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Angelos StamosBehavioral Engineering Group, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Yia-Chin TanDepartment of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Mario WenzelHeath Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2839-9482
Oulmann ZerhouniLaboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale, University Paris Nanterre, France.
Li-Wei ZhangDepartment of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, China.
Yi-Jia ZhangDepartment of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, China.
Axel ZinkernagelDepartment of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Mainz, Germany.
Beijing Sport University · CNUniversity of Oregon · USJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEKU Leuven · BENational University of Singapore · SGUniversity of Koblenz and Landau · DESapienza University of Rome · ITUniversität Hamburg · DEUniversity of Hong Kong · HKUppsala University · SEVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NLEuropean University of Rome · ITMax Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics · DENetherlands Institute for Social Research · NLUniversité Paris Nanterre · FRUniversity of Amsterdam · NLUniversity of Cologne · DE
Funding
Supplement to Prevention Research Center: Parenting Among Women Who Are Opioid Users, Project 2P50DA048756 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI FISHER, PHILIP A, LEVE, LESLIE DIANE · 2019 to 2023
$18.0MDevaluing Energy-Dense Foods for Cancer Control: Translational NeuroscienceR01CA211224 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI BERKMAN, ELLIOT TODD · 2017 to 2021
$3.2MNCI NIH HHS R01 CA211224NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA048756
Abstract
There is an active debate regarding whether the ego depletion effect is real. A recent preregistered experiment with the Stroop task as the depleting task and the antisaccade task as the outcome task found a medium-level effect size. In the current research, we conducted a preregistered multilab replication of that experiment. Data from 12 labs across the globe (
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