What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Perspectives on Psychological Science

• Publication date

  2012-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/1745691612454134PMID 26168503
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