Ego depletion: is the active self a limited resource?

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Publication date

  1998-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1252PMID 9599441
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