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Self-Regulation and Self-Presentation: Regulatory Resource Depletion Impairs Impression Management and Effortful Self-Presentation Depletes Regulatory Resources


Self-control draws from a finite resource — and spending it on managing how others see you leaves less for everything else. Vohs et al. ran a series of experiments showing that impression management depletes the same regulatory resource as resisting temptation or making decisions. The reverse holds too: prior self-regulatory exertion makes people worse at controlling their self-presentation. Social performance is cognitively expensive in a way we rarely account for, and the cost compounds.

Vohs, K. D., Baumeister, R. F., & Ciarocco, N. J. (2005). Self-regulation and self-presentation: Regulatory resource depletion impairs impression management and effortful self-presentation depletes regulatory resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(4), 632–657. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.88.4.632

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