What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control

By Michael Inzlicht, B. Schmeichel. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Slim by Design: Redirecting the Accidental Drivers of Mindless Overeating (2014, background): “…that ego threats deplete people’s self-regulation resources or motivate them to escape self-awareness (Mandel & Smeesters 2008), others have argued it instead merely skirts attention away from goal conflict and toward reward and gratification (Inzlicht & Schmeichel 2012; Stroebe, et al. 2013).”
What’s So Great About Self-Control? Examining the Importance of Effortful Self-Control and Temptation in Predicting Real-Life Depletion and Goal Attainment (2015, background): “According to the dominant view of self-control as a limited inner resource (Baumeister, Heatherton, & Tice, 1994; Baumeister et al., 2007; but see Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012), exercising self-control results in a state known as ego depletion, whereby this resource is drained, such that further…”
Exploring the Mechanisms of Self-Control Improvement (2014, result): “Although many studies have seemed to confirm this resource account, a newer crop of studies is inconsistent with it, instead suggesting that selfcontrol depletion, or fatigue, is better characterized as a change in motivational priorities (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012).”
When does proactivity have a cost? Motivation at work moderates the effects of proactive work behavior on employee job strain (2017, background): “Having to dedicate time and effort to proactive work behavior means overriding the tendency to focus attention on tasks with more immediate outcomes, which requires a high degree of self-regulation (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012; Muraven & Baumeister, 2000).”
Whatever Happened to Self-Control? A Proposal for Integrating Notions From Trait Self-Control Studies Into State Self-Control Research (2017, positive): “…of resources (Baumeister et al., 1998) or from shifts in motivation and attention for exerting self-control after an initial act of self-control (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012), whether ego depletion is caused by naïve beliefs about how self-control operates (Job, Dweck, & Walton, 2010), and…”
A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect (2016, neutral): “…the “strength” or resource depletion model (Beedie & Lane, 2011; Evans, Boggero, & Segerstrom, 2015; Giacomantonio, Jordan, Fennis, & Panno, 2014; Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012; Inzlicht, Schmeichel, & Macrae, 2014; Kotabe & Hofmann, 2015), and research identifying the underlying neural…”
My Family Made Me Do It: A Cross-Domain, Self-Regulatory Perspective on Antecedents to Abusive Supervision (2016, background): “In that regard, theory and research suggest that self-regulatory resources are most likely to become depleted when individuals face stress from having to meet competing demands from unrelated domains with established boundaries (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012; Rothbard, 2001).”
Effortless Self‐Control: A Novel Perspective on Response Conflict Strategies in Trait Self‐Control (2015, background): “…and incentives (Muraven & Slessareva, 2003) affect self-control depletion, leading to a novel interpretation of self-control depletion as being a motivation-driven and attention-driven process rather than a matter of resources (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012; Inzlicht, Schmeichel, & Macrae, 2014).”
The past, present, and future of ego depletion (2019, background): “In response to these theoretical deficiencies, a number of scholars started proposing alternative accounts of the ego depletion effect (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012; Inzlicht, Schmeichel, & Macrae, 2014; Kool & Botvinick, 2014; Kurzban, Duckworth, Kable, & Myers, 2013).”
Serving You Depletes Me? A Leader-Centric Examination of Servant Leadership Behaviors (2020, background): “Rather, past experience, skill, motivation, and other factors can temper the extent to which behaviors result in the subjective experience of depletion (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012; Job, Dweck, & Walton, 2010).”
‘The Ostrich Problem’: motivated avoidance or rejection of information about goal progress (2013, background): “Given the potential benefits of monitoring progress for promoting goal achievement and behavior change, why might people actively avoid or ignore information pertaining to their goal progress? Liberman and Dar (2009) provide a useful review of how aspects of the focal goal (e.”