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 ¼ 1,775) revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect, d ¼ 0.10. After excluding participants who might have responded randomly during the outcome task, the effect size increased to d ¼ 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.

A multilab replication of the ego depletion effect / Dang, Junhua; Barker, Paul; Baumert, Anna; Bentvelzen, Margriet; Berkman, Elliot; Buchholz, Nita; Buczny, Jacek; Chen, Zhansheng; DE CRISTOFARO, Valeria; de Vries, Lianne; Dewitte, Siegfried; Giacomantonio, Mauro; Gong, Ran; Homan, Maaike; Imhoff, Roland; Ismail, Ismaharif; Jia, Lile; Kubiak, Thomas; Lange, Florian; Li, Dan-yang; Livingston, Jordan; Ludwig, Rita; Panno, Angelo; Pearman, Joshua; Rassi, Niklas; Schiöth, Helgi B.; Schmitt, Manfred; Timur Sevincer, A.; Shi, Jiaxin; Stamos, Angelos; Chin Tan, Yia; Wenzel, Mario; Zerhouni, Oulmann; Zhang, Li-wei; Zhang, Yi-jia; Zinkernagel, Axel. - In: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL & PERSONALITY SCIENCE. - ISSN 1948-5506. - 12:(2021), pp. 14-24. [10.1177/1948550619887702]

A multilab replication of the ego depletion effect

Valeria De Cristofaro;Mauro Giacomantonio;
2021

Abstract

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 ¼ 1,775) revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect, d ¼ 0.10. After excluding participants who might have responded randomly during the outcome task, the effect size increased to d ¼ 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.
2021
Ego depletion; self-control; multilab; preregistration
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A multilab replication of the ego depletion effect / Dang, Junhua; Barker, Paul; Baumert, Anna; Bentvelzen, Margriet; Berkman, Elliot; Buchholz, Nita; Buczny, Jacek; Chen, Zhansheng; DE CRISTOFARO, Valeria; de Vries, Lianne; Dewitte, Siegfried; Giacomantonio, Mauro; Gong, Ran; Homan, Maaike; Imhoff, Roland; Ismail, Ismaharif; Jia, Lile; Kubiak, Thomas; Lange, Florian; Li, Dan-yang; Livingston, Jordan; Ludwig, Rita; Panno, Angelo; Pearman, Joshua; Rassi, Niklas; Schiöth, Helgi B.; Schmitt, Manfred; Timur Sevincer, A.; Shi, Jiaxin; Stamos, Angelos; Chin Tan, Yia; Wenzel, Mario; Zerhouni, Oulmann; Zhang, Li-wei; Zhang, Yi-jia; Zinkernagel, Axel. - In: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL & PERSONALITY SCIENCE. - ISSN 1948-5506. - 12:(2021), pp. 14-24. [10.1177/1948550619887702]
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