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This needs to be checked for the direction of causality-- maybe people have accurate beliefs about how depletable their willpower is.
That was my first thought, but it appears they accounted for that — "The researchers designed a series of four experiments to test and manipulate Stanford students' beliefs about willpower. After a tiring task, those who believed or were led to believe that willpower is a limited resource performed worse on standard concentration tests than those who thought of willpower as something they had more control over."