Ego Depletion is the Best Replicated Finding in All of Social Psychology
This paper's title states its claim: that ego depletion is the best replicated finding in social psychology. It was published while the large coordinated replication attempts were reporting effects at or close to zero, and it should be read as one side of that argument rather than as a report of the evidence. The case made for the claim rests on the very large number of published studies reporting the effect across different tasks and settings. The case against, which this vault holds in the same folder, is that a count of published studies cannot establish an effect when the analysis of that same literature shows strong signs of publication bias, and that pre-registered multi-laboratory tests are the appropriate check. It also appeared in a journal outside the field's main outlets. Written without an abstract, from the title and from the replication record cited here.
This paper's title states its claim: that ego depletion is the best replicated finding in social psychology. It was published while the large coordinated replication attempts were reporting effects at or close to zero, and it should be read as one side of that argument rather than as a report of the evidence. The case made for the claim rests on the very large number of published studies reporting the effect across different tasks and settings. The case against, which this vault holds in the same folder, is that a count of published studies cannot establish an effect when the analysis of that same literature shows strong signs of publication bias, and that pre-registered multi-laboratory tests are the appropriate check. It also appeared in a journal outside the field's main outlets. Written without an abstract, from the title and from the replication record cited here.
Written from the the paper's title and the replication record already cited here.
What our sources record
Reproduced as it was written when this source was checked, figures and all.
Baumeister, R. F. & Tice, D. M. (2022). “Ego depletion is the best replicated finding in all of social psychology.” Scholarly Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 6(2), 686-688.
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Reliability of this reference
The link below is the right work, with one detail that does not line up. Not indexed in Crossref; resolved to the publisher's own full-text page at Lupine Publishers. The DOI string carries the year 2021 while the issue is cited as 2022 (volume 6, issue 2); the DOI itself was not independently dereferenced, so the publisher URL is the safer link. Worth opening before quoting a figure from it.
The source
DOI: 10.32474/SJPBS.2021.06.000234