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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...
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...