ego depletion/decision fatigue/executive dysfunction

[kaberett]

okay so -- ego depletion is, broadly, the idea that self-control is a finite resource and if you do a thing that takes a lot of self-control you will have less of it left for subsequent tasks within [time-frame]; a recent-ish replication study found that it's not actually an effect that... exists.

what I am curious about, and lacking (ha) the focus etc to track down for myself, is: how does this conception of self-control interact with issues of decision fatigue and executive dysfunction? is self-control being formulated as meaningfully distinct from decision-making?

thank you in advance for indulging my idle curiosity <3

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[emperor]

I read a book about "Willpower", I think it was, and was then a bit sad to discover that many of the studies it was based upon weren't usefully reproducible. I do sometimes find myself having decision fatigue. Err, by which I guess I'm saying "I don't know, but am interested in the answers" :-/