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doi:10.22028/D291-32421
Title: | Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm |
Author(s): | Lin, Hause Saunders, Blair Friese, Malte Evans, Nathan J. Inzlicht, Michael |
Language: | English |
Title: | Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 5 |
Startpage: | 531 |
Endpage: | 547 |
Publisher/Platform: | Sage |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | People feel tired or depleted after exerting mental effort. But even preregistered studies often fail to find effects of exerting effort on behavioral performance in the laboratory or elucidate the underlying psychology. We tested a new paradigm in four preregistered within-subjects studies (N = 686). An initial high-demand task reliably elicited very strong effort phenomenology compared with a low-demand task. Afterward, participants completed a Stroop task. We used drift-diffusion modeling to obtain the boundary (response caution) and drift-rate (information-processing speed) parameters. Bayesian analyses indicated that the high-demand manipulation reduced boundary but not drift rate. Increased effort sensations further predicted reduced boundary. However, our demand manipulation did not affect subsequent inhibition, as assessed with traditional Stroop behavioral measures and additional diffusion-model analyses for conflict tasks. Thus, effort exertion reduced response caution rather than inhibitory control, suggesting that after exerting effort, people disengage and become uninterested in exerting further effort. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.1177/0956797620904990 |
URL of the first publication: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797620904990 |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/29794 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-32421 |
ISSN: | 1467-9280 0956-7976 |
Date of registration: | 1-Oct-2020 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Psychologie |
Professorship: | HW - Prof. Dr. Malte Friese |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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