A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect
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.Publication categories | |||||
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Journal series | Social Psychological and Personality Science, ISSN 1948-5506, e-ISSN 1948-5514, (N/A 100 pkt) | ||||
Issue year | 2021 | ||||
Vol | 12 | ||||
No | 1 | ||||
Pages | 14-24 | ||||
Publication size in sheets | 0.5 | ||||
Keywords in English | ego depletion, self-control, multilab, preregistration | ||||
ASJC Classification | ; | ||||
DOI | DOI:10.1177/1948550619887702 | ||||
Language | en angielski | ||||
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Score (nominal) | 100 | ||||
Score source | journalList | ||||
Publication indicators | : 2018 = 1.545; : 2017 = 2.633 (2) - 2017=3.124 (5) | ||||
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