PSYC19H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ego Depletion, Lemonade
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Baumeister and tice study: eat cookies or radishes then complete an impossible puzzle. Kids who had eaten radishes which were beside the cookies quit in frustration quicker (ego depleted) B & t said that we have a limited supply of willpower and it decreases with overuse ex. Eating radishes when surrounded by cookies= self denial wears you out, willpower draws down metal energy- it"s a (cid:373)us(cid:272)le that (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e e(cid:454)er(cid:272)ised to e(cid:454)haustio(cid:374) A paper now in press: 2k subjects tried to reproduce the main effects that underlies this work and found nothing. For s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tists this is worr(cid:455)i(cid:374)g, takes ai(cid:373) (cid:374)ot just at a si(cid:374)gle paper (cid:271)ut the (cid:862)(cid:271)ig idea(cid:863) Bau(cid:373)eister"s theor(cid:455) of willpower has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:271)or(cid:374)e out agai(cid:374) and again in empirical studies and verified via meta analysis. Even a faithfully replicated study by a miami grad student- carter; via meta analysis, suspe(cid:272)ted the results were(cid:374)"t true.
