Does willpower run down like a battery? The story of "ego depletion"
For many years psychologists believed that willpower is a limited resource that is used up with use. Then replications were run in dozens of laboratories, and the picture changed.
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The deadlines we set ourselves: what Dan Ariely’s proofreading experiment showed
If you were given the freedom to decide when to hand in three assignments, would you leave them all for the last day? Many people choose intermediate deadlines themselves. But not always the right ones.