Sometimes a failure to replicate a study isn’t a failure at all
A recent study on ego depletion can’t confirm an old one. Who is right? Probably everyone.
Spending a whole day virtuously avoiding desserts can leave you helpless in the face of cake. Is it a failure of willpower? Social psychologists disagree.
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