Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues.
Exerting self-control in a first task weakens self-control in a second completely unrelated task (ego-depletion). It has been proposed that ego-depletion increases approach motivation which would amplify positive emotions to appetitive cues. Here we investigated the effect of the depletion of cognit...
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| description | Exerting self-control in a first task weakens self-control in a second completely unrelated task (ego-depletion). It has been proposed that ego-depletion increases approach motivation which would amplify positive emotions to appetitive cues. Here we investigated the effect of the depletion of cognitive self-control on the subsequent emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. Participants of the depletion group copied a text omitting frequent letters and thereby exerting self-control to inhibit automated writing habits. Participants of the control group just copied the text. In a subsequent task participants had to rate valence and arousal of their responses to neutral vs. positive pictures of humans, animals, food, or sceneries. Ego-depletion caused more positive valence ratings of neutral pictures and lower arousal ratings of positive pictures. The findings do not support the notion that ego-depletion increases approach motivation in general. Rather they suggest that-without a specific motivational context-depletion of cognitive self-control differentially alters the immediate emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-76e4d3613001480ab7fe8e24398d7b3d2025-08-20T02:03:50ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01121e017024510.1371/journal.pone.0170245Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues.Christian Dirk WiesnerChristoph LindnerExerting self-control in a first task weakens self-control in a second completely unrelated task (ego-depletion). It has been proposed that ego-depletion increases approach motivation which would amplify positive emotions to appetitive cues. Here we investigated the effect of the depletion of cognitive self-control on the subsequent emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. Participants of the depletion group copied a text omitting frequent letters and thereby exerting self-control to inhibit automated writing habits. Participants of the control group just copied the text. In a subsequent task participants had to rate valence and arousal of their responses to neutral vs. positive pictures of humans, animals, food, or sceneries. Ego-depletion caused more positive valence ratings of neutral pictures and lower arousal ratings of positive pictures. The findings do not support the notion that ego-depletion increases approach motivation in general. Rather they suggest that-without a specific motivational context-depletion of cognitive self-control differentially alters the immediate emotional evaluation of appetitive cues.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170245&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Christian Dirk Wiesner Christoph Lindner Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. PLoS ONE |
| title | Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. |
| title_full | Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. |
| title_fullStr | Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. |
| title_short | Weakening self-control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues. |
| title_sort | weakening self control biases the emotional evaluation of appetitive cues |
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