An updated meta-analysis of the ego depletion effect
(2018) In Psychological Research 82(4). p.645-651- Abstract
The ego depletion effect is one of the most famous phenomena in social psychology. A recent meta-analysis showed that after accounting for small-studies effects by using a newly developed method called PET-PEESE, the ego depletion effect was indistinguishable from zero. However, it is too early to draw such rushing conclusion because of the inappropriate usage of PET-PEESE. The current paper reported a stricter and updated meta-analysis of ego depletion by carefully inspecting problems in the previous meta-analysis, including new studies not covered by it, and testing the effectiveness of each depleting task. The results suggest that attention video should be an ineffective depleting task, whereas emotion video should be the most... (More)
The ego depletion effect is one of the most famous phenomena in social psychology. A recent meta-analysis showed that after accounting for small-studies effects by using a newly developed method called PET-PEESE, the ego depletion effect was indistinguishable from zero. However, it is too early to draw such rushing conclusion because of the inappropriate usage of PET-PEESE. The current paper reported a stricter and updated meta-analysis of ego depletion by carefully inspecting problems in the previous meta-analysis, including new studies not covered by it, and testing the effectiveness of each depleting task. The results suggest that attention video should be an ineffective depleting task, whereas emotion video should be the most effective one. Future studies are needed to confirm the effectiveness of each depletion task revealed by the current meta-analysis.
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- Dang, Junhua LU
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- publishing date
- 2018
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
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- Psychological Research
- volume
- 82
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 645 - 651
- publisher
- Springer
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- scopus:85017168799
- pmid:28391367
- ISSN
- 0340-0727
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00426-017-0862-x
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 4680ef86-62b4-485c-a77f-b88d734a34e3
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- 2017-04-26 14:36:55
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