TY - JOUR

T1 - A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect

AU - Dang, Junhua

AU - Barker, Paul

AU - Baumert, Anna

AU - Bentvelzen, Margriet

AU - Berkman, Elliot

AU - Buchholz, Nita

AU - Buczny, Jacek

AU - Chen, Zhansheng

AU - De Cristofaro, Valeria

AU - de Vries, Lianne

AU - Dewitte, Siegfried

AU - Giacomantonio, Mauro

AU - Gong, Ran

AU - Homan, Maaike

AU - Imhoff, Roland

AU - Ismail, Ismaharif

AU - Jia, Lile

AU - Kubiak, Thomas

AU - Lange, Florian

AU - Li, Dan Yang

AU - Livingston, Jordan

AU - Ludwig, Rita

AU - Panno, Angelo

AU - Pearman, Joshua

AU - Rassi, Niklas

AU - Schiöth, Helgi B.

AU - Schmitt, Manfred

AU - Sevincer, A. Timur

AU - Shi, Jiaxin

AU - Stamos, Angelos

AU - Tan, Yia Chin

AU - Wenzel, Mario

AU - Zerhouni, Oulmann

AU - Zhang, Li Wei

AU - Zhang, Yi Jia

AU - Zinkernagel, Axel

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2020.

PY - 2021/1

Y1 - 2021/1

N2 - 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 = 0.16. By adding an informative, unbiased data point to the literature, our findings contribute to clarifying the existence, size, and generality of ego depletion.

AB - 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 = 0.16. By adding an informative, unbiased data point to the literature, our findings contribute to clarifying the existence, size, and generality of ego depletion.

KW - ego depletion

KW - multilab

KW - preregistration

KW - self-control

KW - Psychology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083208952&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1948550619887702

DO - 10.1177/1948550619887702

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 34113424

AN - SCOPUS:85083208952

VL - 12

SP - 14

EP - 24

JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science

JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science

SN - 1948-5506

IS - 1

ER -