Re: Ego Depletion

[Nitzan Shahar]

Hi,

this is a very important point. I'm adding a reference for an amazing paper (in my eyes). they show here that by refraining from doing automatic activities (i.e. practicing more self control) by either not using the dominant hand or refraining from saying certain things, people can increase the threshold of depletion.

I think that this says that the limited resource of self control can be manipulated and changed by practice. regarding dNb,I'm not so sure I agree with you that improving our regulatory ability should directly improve our intellectual

ability. I'm also doubtful if dNb practice can change self control overall. I think that dNb requires less self regulation (like refraining from doing something) and more "thinking" ability, as in working memory, and that this two are not the same. What I'm trying to say is that I think that you need self control to be able to sit down and think, but once this happened, what counts is your WM abilities.

but I want to ask you guys - how tired are u after practice ?? did you notice any change in will power after a while ??

Nitzan.

Gailliot, M., Plant, E. A., Butz, D. A., & Baumeister, R. F. (2007). Increasing self-regulatory strength via exercise can reduce the depleting effect of suppressing stereotypes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 281-294.

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 08:51, ailambris <aila...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is an example of one of many articles on the topic:

http://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/345/345%20Articles/Baumeister%20et%20al.%20(1998).pdf

My question is, how much of our capacity to self-regulate is
conditionable, admitting that it is a finite resource? It's surprising
that this hasn't come up much before. Sifting through the archive, I
found Wade made mention of it, actually he referred a title:
"Longitudinal Improvement of Self-Regulation Through Practice:
Building Self-Control Strength Through Repeated Exercise", but I can't
seem to find it. I'd not trust a lone study, either.

If something so trivial as making a simple decision can tax our mental
resource, then without a doubt this must come into play when we're
laboring over an even mildly challenging task. Then without a doubt,
improving our regulatory ability should improve our intellectual
ability. Why hasn't this come up much before?

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