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Mead NL, Baumeister RF, Gino F, et al. Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty. J Exp Soc Psychol. 2009;45(3):594-597doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.004.
Mead, N. L., Baumeister, R. F., Gino, F., Schweitzer, M. E., & Ariely, D. (2009). Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty. Journal of experimental social psychology, 45(3), 594-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.004
Mead, Nicole L, et al. "Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty." Journal of experimental social psychology vol. 45,3 (2009): 594-597. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.004
Mead NL, Baumeister RF, Gino F, Schweitzer ME, Ariely D. Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty. J Exp Soc Psychol. 2009;45(3):594-597. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.004. PMID: 20047023; PMCID: PMC2680601.
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J Exp Soc Psychol. 2009;45(3):594-597. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.004.

Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty.

Journal of experimental social psychology

Nicole L Mead, Roy F Baumeister, Francesca Gino, Maurice E Schweitzer, Dan Ariely

Affiliations

  1. Florida State University.

PMID: 20047023 PMCID: PMC2680601 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.004

Abstract

The opportunity to profit from dishonesty evokes a motivational conflict between the temptation to cheat for selfish gain and the desire to act in a socially appropriate manner. Honesty may depend on self-control given that self-control is the capacity that enables people to override antisocial selfish responses in favor of socially desirable responses. Two experiments tested the hypothesis that dishonesty would increase when people's self-control resources were depleted by an initial act of self-control. Depleted participants misrepresented their performance for monetary gain to a greater extent than did non-depleted participants (Experiment 1). Perhaps more troubling, depleted participants were more likely than non-depleted participants to expose themselves to the temptation to cheat, thereby aggravating the effects of depletion on cheating (Experiment 2). Results indicate that dishonesty increases when people's capacity to exert self-control is impaired, and that people may be particularly vulnerable to this effect because they do not predict it.

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