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Ego Depletion And Boredom: Does Boredom Compromise Future Acts Of Self-Control?, John Lemay
Ego Depletion And Boredom: Does Boredom Compromise Future Acts Of Self-Control?, John Lemay
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This study explored how boredom might influence self-control when participants believed that willpower is unlimited or limited. After completing one of two questionnaires, which induced the belief that willpower is either unlimited or limited, participants then completed one of three tasks. The tasks consisted of a non-ego depleting self-control task, an ego-depleting self-control task, and a task shown to induce boredom, with the nondepleting and depleting conditions having been replicated from research by Job, Dweck, and Walton (2010). In the non-depleting condition, participants completed a task that involved crossing out all occasions of the letter āeā found on two pages ā¦