A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect
Authors:
- Jacek Buczny,
- Junhua Dang ,
- Paul Barker,
- Anna Baumert ,
- Margriet Bentvelzen ,
- Elliot Berkman ,
- Nita Buchholz ,
- Valeria De Cristofaro,
- Lianne de Vries,
- Siegfried Dewitte ,
- Mauro Giacomantonio ,
- Ran Gong ,
- Maaike Homan ,
- Roland Imhoff ,
- Ismaharif Ismail,
- Lile Jia,
- Thomas Kubiak ,
- Florian Lange ,
- Dan-Yang Li,
- Jordan Livingston ,
- Rita Ludwig ,
- Angelo Panno ,
- Joshua Pearman ,
- Niklas Rassi ,
- Helgi B. Schioth,
- Manfred Schmitt ,
- A. Timur Sevincer,
- Jiaxin Shi,
- Angelos Stamos ,
- Yia Chin Tan,
- Mario Wenzel,
- Oulmann Zerhouni ,
- Li-Wei Zhang,
- Yi-Jia Zhang,
- Axel Zinkernagel,
- Zhansheng Chen
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 (N ¼ 1,775) revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect, d ¼ 0.10. After excluding participants who might have responded randomly during the outcome task, the effect size increased to d ¼ 0.16. By adding an informative, unbiased data point to the literature, our findings contribute to clarifying the existence, size, and generality of ego depletion.
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- SWPSea9ed4d52d5f4f9f8cb4637af28d8431
- Publication categories
- Author
- Journal series
- Social Psychological and Personality Science, ISSN 1948-5506, e-ISSN 1948-5514
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 12
- No
- 1
- Pages
- 14-24
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- ego depletion, self-control, multilab, preregistration
- ASJC Classification
- ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.1177/1948550619887702 opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect (2021).pdf
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- Additional file
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- File: 1
- Oświadczenie Buczny A Multilab.pdf
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