Ego depletion: is the active self a limited resource?
Ego depletion: is the active self a limited resource? (1998) Baumeister R F, Bratslavsky E, Muraven M, Tice D M. Journal of personality and social psychology. Choice, active response, self-regulation, and other volition may all draw on a common inner resource.
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