A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect

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

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A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect

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 LiJordan 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

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-24
Number of pages	11
Journal	Social Psychological and Personality Science
Volume	12
Issue number	1
Early online date	3 Apr 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619887702
Publication status	Published - Jan 2021

Funding

Junhua Dang is supported by the Swedish Research Council (2018-06664); Helgi Schiöth is supported by the Swedish Research Council; Jacek Buczny was partially supported by SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot, Poland, Grant BST WSO/2016/A/01, and VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Lile Jia was sponsored by Social Psychological and Personality Science Grant R-581-000-165-133 from the National University of Singapore; Anna Baumert and Manfred Schmitt were supported by the German Research Foundation (SCHM1092/16-1); Liwei Zhang was supported by Grant 2018YFF0300902 China National Key Research Project; Elliot Berkman was supported by NIH Grants R01 MH107418, R01 CA211224, R21 CA175241, and R01 HD094831.

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SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities	R-581-000-165-133, BST WSO/2016/A/01
National Institutes of Health	R01 MH107418, R01 HD094831, R21 CA175241, R01 CA211224
National Institutes of Health
National University of Singapore
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	2018YFF0300902, SCHM1092/16-1
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Vetenskapsrådet	2018-06664
Vetenskapsrådet

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preregistration
self-control

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Dang, J., Barker, P., Baumert, A., Bentvelzen, M., Berkman, E., Buchholz, N., Buczny, J., Chen, Z., De Cristofaro, V., de Vries, L., Dewitte, S., Giacomantonio, M., Gong, R., Homan, M., Imhoff, R., Ismail, I., Jia, L., Kubiak, T., Lange, F., ... Zinkernagel, A. (2021). A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(1), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619887702

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