The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
so in 2013 a colleague of mine at Stanford Dr Carol D and our department of psychology did a study in which she examined this idea that willpower is a limited resource and the idea that the resource that's limited is glucose availability for the brain
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the major focus of the study was to have people engage in one hard task and then in another hard task both of which draw on Willpower testing the idea that willpower is a limited resource and then providing some of those subjects with a glucose-rich drink
D and colleagues did an experiment that in many ways mirrored the overall organization of the experiments done by Bow meister and colleagues there was a difficult task some cases the difficult task was that Crossing out of particular ease within a passage task followed by another difficult task and the difficult task that came second was the Stroop task