Servant comments on Willpower: not a limited resource? - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Jess_Riedel 25 October 2010 12:06PM

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Comment author: Servant 27 October 2010 05:17:32AM *  5 points [-]

"Much recent research suggests that willpower—the capacity to exert self-control—is a limited resource that is depleted after exertion."

Instead of taking this research at face value, shouldn't we wait for new experiments to verify their findings? I am afraid of people just accepting this experiment, and ignoring the many OTHER experiments that said otherwise.