Why an Entire Field of Psychology Is in Trouble
Learn why an entire field of Psychology is in trouble. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo...
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In 1998, a scientist named Roy Baumeister decided to investigate a question that psychologists had been thinking about for a while: Do people have a limited amount of willpower? To figure it out, he and his research group did what researchers do: they conducted a study. The results of that study seemed to show that humans do have a limited pool of self-control. In other words, once we’ve had to resist temptation, it’s a lot harder to do it again. They called this effect ego depletion, and the idea has had a huge influence on psychological research ever since. It’s been incorporated into things like dieting tactics, athletic training techniques, and advertising. But now, it seems like the phenomenon might not exist at all -- which has a lot of sci...
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In 1998, a scientist named Roy Baumeister decided to investigate a question that psychologists had been thinking about for a while: Do people have a limited amount of willpower? To figure it out, he and his research group did what researchers do: they conducted a study. The results of that study seemed to show that humans do have a limited pool of self-control. In other words, once we’ve had to resist temptation, it’s a lot harder to do it again. They called this effect ego depletion, and the idea has had a huge influence on psychological research ever since. It’s been incorporated into things like dieting tactics, athletic training techniques, and advertising. But now, it seems like the phenomenon might not exist at all -- which has a lot of sci...
