Abstract:Psychology suffers from the so-called “replication crisis”, which has led to question many popular psychological phenomena. Ego-depletion is among the most criticized ones, especially since attempts to improve its replicability have failed. We argue though that many replication attempts are based on inaccurate conceptions of ego-depletion. More precisely, we suggest that failures to replicate ego depletion may be due to four common issues and limits. Firstly, we discuss the regular absence of a comprehensive a… Show more
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