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A comment on The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017). Parent comment

Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by wussboy on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:58PM (#24520607)
Will power don’t really work that way. Studies show it is an exhaustible resource and if you’re using it all day to fight of pulling your phone out of your pocket, you won’t have it for anything else you do in your day (and you’ll STILL probably pull your phone out!)

The people with the best will power have organized their lives so that they don’t need will power.

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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by reificator on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:05PM (#24520704)
I was under the impression that those studies not only failed to replicate but in fact more recent studies found the opposite...
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by bonoboTP on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:47PM (#24521149)
Furthermore it was also shown that whichever "theory" you believe about willpower (consumable resource vs habituation like a trainable muscle) will impact your performance. If you believe it's not a finite resource but something that gets more plentiful and strong the more you use it, you will appear to confirm this theory.

Source: this is the specialty of Veronika Job, see her work here: https://tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie/iaosp/sozial/die-profes...

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