A recent You Are Not So Smart episode covered the "ego depletion" studies now failing replication: https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/100-the-replication-crisis

A new set of studies show that if "ego depletion" exists it is not biological, but cultural: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/06/12/reverse-ego-depletion-people-in-india-find-mental-effort-energising/

If you were raised to believe that willpower is a finite pool, it is.

#psychology #egodepletion #replication