Junhua Dang, Paul Barker, Anna Baumert, Margriet Bentvelzen, Elliot Berkman, Nita Buchholz, Jacek Buczny, Zhansheng Chen, 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 Schiöth, Manfred Schmitt, A Timur Sevincer, Jiaxin Shi, Angelos Stamos, Yia-Chin Tan, Mario Wenzel, Oulmann Zerhouni, Li-Wei Zhang, Yi-Jia Zhang, Axel Zinkernagel
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 = 1,775) revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect, d = 0.10. After excluding participants who might have responded randomly during the outcome task, the effect size increased to d = 0...
January 1, 2021: Social Psychological and Personality Science