What People Desire, Feel Conflicted About, and Try to Resist in Everyday Life

@article{Hofmann2012WhatPD,
  title={What People Desire, Feel Conflicted About, and Try to Resist in Everyday Life},
  author={Wilhelm Hofmann and Kathleen D. Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2012},
  volume={23},
  pages={582 - 588},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24158524}
}
Support for a limited-resource model of self-control employing a novel operationalization of cumulative resource depletion is observed: the frequency and recency of engaging in prior self- control negatively predicted people’s success at resisting subsequent desires on the same day.
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