Mechanisms of Self-Control Failure: Motivation and Limited Resources

By Mark Muraven, Elisaveta Slessareva. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Money, depletion, and prosociality in the dictator game (2015, background): “Muraven and Slessareva (2003) showed that monetary incentives in tasks following the depletion stage can mitigate ego-depletion, mainly because financial rewards increase participants’ motivation and thereby, at least partially, override reduced self-control resources.”
Ego Depletion and Self-Control Failure: An Energy Model of the Self's Executive Function (2002, background): “Evidence of conservation was provided by Muraven (1998) who showed that the effects of ego depletion could be resisted if the stakes were high enough.”
Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control (2012, methodology): “Muraven and Slessareva (2003) showed that offering incentives can overcome depletion, which some have taken to suggest that depletion is not an energy deficit but simply a lack of motivation.”
The Dark Triad of personality and unethical behavior at different times of day (2016, neutral): “Previous studies have shown that motivation and success importance can compensate for self-control resource depletion (Muraven & Slessareva, 2003; Stewart, Wright, Hui, & Simmons, 2009).”
Be Fit and Be Strong: Mastering Self‐Regulation through Regulatory Fit (2008, background): “That perceived risk moderates the effect of regulatory nonfit is similar to the notion that motivation can moderate ego depletion effects (Muraven and Slessareva 2003)—when people are sufficiently motivated, they will conjure up the resource or the willpower to self-regulate.”
Self-control and alcohol restraint: an initial application of the self-control strength model (2002, background): “Similarly, inhibiting an urge has no effect on later tasks that do not require self-control (Muraven & Slessareva, 2001).”
Heart Rate Variability Reflects Self-Regulatory Strength, Effort, and Fatigue (2007, background): “When motivated to do so, people can override self-regulatory fatigue (Martijn, Tenbult, Merckelbach, Dreezens, & de Vries, 2002; Muraven & Slessareva, 2003 ), and so the timely bolstering of motivation could prevent self-regulatory failure.”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “Another possibility is that the initial task merely diminishes an individual’s motivation to persevere at a subsequent task—a possibility supported by the fact that financial incentives appear to restore self-regulatory strength (Muraven & Slessareva, 2003).”
Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior (2004, background): “some awareness of the dynamic properties of willpower and take these into account in a strategic fashion ( Muraven 1998 ).”
An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance (2013, positive): “Similarly, when a second self-control task is perceived as sufficiently important (e.g., it leads to money, it may help others or oneself), prior engagement with a first, “depleting” task has no effect on performance or perseverance (e.g., Muraven & Slessareva 2003).”
Social exclusion impairs self-regulation. (2005, methodology): “The procedure used to measure self-regulatory failure was borrowed from previous work ( Muraven, 1998 ).”
Self‐Regulation in Health Behavior: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues (2008, background): “However, it has been suggested that depletion effects may also be related to decreased motivation (Martijn, Alberts & De Vries, this volume; Muraven & Slessareva, 2003).”
Examining the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Workplace Deviance: A Self-Regulatory Perspective (2011, background): “Managers can also potentially draw on recent evidence suggesting that incentives can mitigate the effects of self-regulatory depletion on behavior (e.g., Baumeister & Vohs, 2007; Muraven & Slessareva, 2003).”