A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect

By Martin S. Hagger, Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis, H. Alberts, C. O. Anggono, C. Batailler, A. Birt, R. Brand, Mark J. Brandt, G. Brewer, S. Bruyneel and 54 more. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Large-Scale Replication Projects in Contemporary Psychological Research (2017, methodology): “…phenomena that include the facial feedback hypothesis, ego depletion, the effect of time pressure on cooperative decisions, and the link between commitment to and betrayal of a romantic relationship (Wagenmakers et al. 2016; Hagger et al. 2016; Bouwmeester et al. 2017; Cheung et al. 2016).”
Whatever Happened to Self-Control? A Proposal for Integrating Notions From Trait Self-Control Studies Into State Self-Control Research (2017, positive): “Although metaanalytic evidence has supported the existence of the ego-depletion effect within the dual task paradigm (Hagger, Wood, Stiff, & Chatzisarantis, 2010), its validity has also recently been contested in a number of critical reviews (Carter & McCullough, 2013, 2014; Hagger et al., 2016).”
Self-regulation in childhood as a predictor of future outcomes: A meta-analytic review. (2020, result): “The prediction that self-regulation is a limited resource that can be used up through depleting mental tasks is a contemporary topic of discussion with research producing conflicting results (cf. Baumeister, Tice, & Vohs, 2018; Hagger et al., 2016).”
The past, present, and future of ego depletion (2019, background): “…started appearing in the literature shortly thereafter (Xu et al., 2014), some even preregistered (Lurquin et al., 2016) scholars only started to change their minds en masse after a widely publicized registered replication report failed to find any evidence of ego depletion (Hagger et al., 2016).”
Correcting for Bias in Psychology: A Comparison of Meta-Analytic Methods (2019, methodology): “…literature (e.g., Carter, Kofler, Forster, & McCullough, 2015; van Elk et al., 2015; Hilgard, Engelhardt, & Rouder, n.d.), which can then inspire a careful re-examination of methodology and theory followed by, if necessary, large-scale, preregistered replication efforts (e.g., Hagger et al., 2016).”
Annual Research Review: On the relations among self-regulation, self-control, executive functioning, effortful control, cognitive control, impulsivity, risk-taking, and inhibition for developmental psychopathology (2016, neutral): “Top-down processes are subjectively deliberate, slow, sequential, require working memory, and are capacitylimited [the separate question of resource-limitation is complex (Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2016); for discussion see the online Appendix S1].”
Expanding minds: Growth mindsets of self-regulation and the influences on effort and perseverance (2018, result): “The results of this study did not replicate the ego depletion effect, which is consistent with other recent replication failures (Carter, Kofler, Forster, & McCullough, 2015; Hagger et al., 2016).”
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): “Indeed, over 200 studies have shown that exercising self-control on one task impairs performance on subsequent self-control tasks (Hagger, Wood, Stiff, & Chatzisarantis, 2010; however, see Hagger et al., 2016).”
Replicability Crisis in Social Psychology: Looking at the Past to Find New Pathways for the Future (2017, background): “…social psychological literature, such as ego-depletion (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven, & Tice, 1998) or unconscious behavioral priming (Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, 1996) were challenged in replication studies that proved unsuccessful (Doyen, Klein, Pichon, & Cleeremans, 2012; Hagger et al., 2016).”