Andrew Huberman· PhD
Unfortunately, those experiments have um much like the Walter Michelle study have come under come under attack for whether or not they can replicate.
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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.
Unfortunately, those experiments have um much like the Walter Michelle study have come under come under attack for whether or not they can replicate.
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So, one of these multilab experiments they try something like this using different tasks but I've given you a sort of an example of what kinds of experiments they run and they could not replicate the depletion effect.
There are some multilab replications that have tried to replicate this effect. So what you do in the lab is you do one hard task that requires self-control and then you do a second one and the prediction would be if you've done a hard thing first then you should be worse at the second one. So one multilab experiment did not show that it was that it worked and another one showed it did.
And so I think the consensus in the field is that it doesn't actually happen or at least we can't get it to work in the lab.