Self-control depletion is more than motivational switch from work to fun: the indispensable role of cognitive adaptation

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Lund University Lund, Sweden.
² Department of Psychology, Peking University Beijing, China.
³ Research Center for Marketing and Consumer Science, Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Belgium.

Junhua Dang et al. Front Psychol. 2014.

. 2014 Aug 25:5:933.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00933. eCollection 2014.

¹ Department of Psychology, Lund University Lund, Sweden.
² Department of Psychology, Peking University Beijing, China.
³ Research Center for Marketing and Consumer Science, Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Belgium.

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Keywords: adaptation; cognitive control; resource depletion; self-control; switch costs.

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