No Evidence of the Ego-Depletion Effect across Task Characteristics and Individual Differences: A Pre-Registered Study

John H. Lurquin; Laura E. Michaelson; Jane E. Barker; Daniel E. Gustavson; Claudia C. von Bastian; Nicholas P. Carruth; Akira Miyake

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147770

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No Evidence of the Ego-Depletion Effect across Task Characteristics and Individual Differences: A Pre-Registered Study

John H. Lurquin ,

* E-mail: john.lurquin@colorado.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Laura E. Michaelson,

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Jane E. Barker,

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Daniel E. Gustavson,

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Claudia C. von Bastian,

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Nicholas P. Carruth,

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Akira Miyake

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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No Evidence of the Ego-Depletion Effect across Task Characteristics and Individual Differences: A Pre-Registered Study

John H. Lurquin,
Laura E. Michaelson,
Jane E. Barker,
Daniel E. Gustavson,
Claudia C. von Bastian,
Nicholas P. Carruth,
Akira Miyake

Published: February 10, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147770

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Directional Bayes Factor (correction)

Posted by Alexander_Etz on 14 Feb 2016 at 14:41 GMT

The code for the previous comment is wrong, it should be:

1/exp(ttest.tstat(t=-1.46, n1=100, n2=100, rscale = 0.707,nullInterval=c(0,Inf))[['bf']])
[1] 15.1061

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