Does willpower mindset really moderate the ego-depletion effect? A preregistered replication of Job, Dweck, and Walton (2010).

Autor: Carruth NP; Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, United States of America., Ramos JA; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States of America., Miyake A; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Jun 29; Vol. 18 (6), pp. e0287911. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 29 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287911
Abstrakt: This article reports a preregistered study in which we attempted to replicate the results of an influential study on the ego-depletion effect reported by Job, Dweck, and Walton in 2010. The original Job et al. study (Study 1, N = 60) provided evidence that the ego-depletion effect-a performance decrease on a self-control task after performing another self-control task-occurs only for individuals who hold a belief that their willpower is limited. This moderation of the ego-depletion effect by one's willpower mindset (limited vs. nonlimited) has been interpreted as evidence against a prevalent limited-resource account of self-control. Although this alternative account of the ego-depletion effect has become well-known, the statistical evidence of the original study was on shaky ground. We therefore conducted a preregistered replication of the original study with some methodological improvements. As in the original study, participants (N = 187) performed a self-control task (Stroop color-word interference task) after performing the control or depletion version of a letter cancelation task. Despite extensive analyses, we failed to replicate the original results: There was neither a significant main effect of ego depletion nor a significant moderation of this ego-depletion effect by individual differences in willpower mindset. Together with other recent failures to replicate the original moderation effect, our results cast doubts on the claim that an individual's view of whether willpower is limited or not affects one's susceptibility to the ego-depletion effect.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Carruth et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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