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It turns out that willpower is in your head.
The finding that willpower is not a limited resource is "a pretty powerful conclusion," she said.
But new psychological research finally acknowledges that willpower is a limited resource.
However, underlying this statement is the idea that willpower is an entity that cannot be changed.
When people believe that willpower is fixed and limited, their willpower is easily depleted.
Sugar helps people only when they think that willpower is sharply limited.
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Furthermore, when we taught college students that willpower was not so limited, they showed similar increases in willpower.
But when the initial task was hard and involved self-control, people who believed that willpower was limited made almost twice as many mistakes on the tricky cognitive task as did the group that performed the initial easy task.
But, strikingly, we found that people who believed that willpower was not limited continued to perform well on the second task, making few mistakes, even after facing the difficult initial task.
During stressful times, like final-exam week, students who believed that willpower was not limited reported eating less junk food and procrastinating less than students who did not share that belief.
Previous studies suggested that willpower was a finite resource through a process known in psychology as "ego depletion".
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