title: Resource depletion does not influence prospective memory in college students.
abstract: This paper reports an experiment designed to investigate the potential influence of prior acts of self-control on subsequent prospective memory performance. College undergraduates (n=146) performed either a cognitively depleting initial task (e.g., mostly incongruent Stroop task) or a less resource-consuming version of that task (e.g., all congruent Stroop task). Subsequently, participants completed a prospective memory task that required attentionally demanding monitoring processes. The results demonstrated that prior acts of self-control do not impair the ability to execute a future intention in college-aged adults. We conceptually replicated these results in three additional depletion and prospective memory experiments. This research extends a growing number of studies demonstrating the boundary conditions of the resource depletion effect in cognitive tasks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130, United States. Electronic address: jill-shelton@utc.edu.
authors.forename: Jill Talley
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Shelton
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Cahill
authors.forename: Hillary G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Mullet
authors.forename: Michael K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Scullin
authors.forename: Gilles O
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Einstein
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: McDaniel
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011897:Random Allocation; D057190:Stroop Test; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities
keywords: Delay interval; Executive control; Prospective memory; Resource depletion; Self-control; Self-regulation
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