Ego depletion replication results template.

Participants

We recruited participants (N = 100, males = 50, females = 50, M age = 20.00 years, SD =
0.50) from an undergraduate participant pool at [UNIVERSITY]. The participants were
enrolled in [COURSE TITLE] and participated in the study for [COURSE
CREDIT/PAYMENT OF US$xx]. Participants (n = xx) were excluded from the final analysis
because they did not follow the instructions (n = xx), did not meet the meet the specified
inclusion criteria for first-spoken language (n = xx), and age (18-30 years). Xx participants
were excluded because their performance on the letter ‘e’ task and MSIT fell below 80%
accuracy or had mean reaction time or mean reaction time variability values that fell outside
two standard deviations of the sample mean on the MSIT. The final sample comprised xx
participants in the hard letter ‘e’ (ego-depletion) condition and yy participants in the easy
letter ‘e’ (control) condition. [EXPERIMENTER NAME(S)] served as the experimenter(s),
and were [BLIND/NOT BLIND] to condition assignment. For those experimenters who were
initially blind, blinding was checked at the end of their running by [DOING X]. Our
procedures followed the approved protocol and did not deviate from our preregistered plan
[OR IF THERE WAS SOME DEVIATION, WRITE: We deviated from our preregistered
plan in the following ways: PROVIDE FULL DETAILS e.g., experimenter error,
unanticipated event, participant did not fulfil age criteria etc.].

Critical analyses

1) Independent samples t-test comparing the ex-Gaussian fitted mean overall response time
variability (RTV) for the incongruent items on the MSIT [note this is the
ExGauss.I.RTVar.MSIT column in the output file] across the ego-depletion and control
conditions.

Ego-depletion: n = xx; M RTV= y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

Control: n = xx; M RTV = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

t(xx) = y.yy, p = .zzz, d = .xx

2) Independent samples t-test comparing the mean overall response time (RT) for the
incongruent items on the MSIT [note this is the I_1_MeanRT.MSIT column in the output
file] across the ego-depletion and control conditions.

Ego-depletion: n = xx; M RT= y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

Control: n = xx; M RT = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

t(xx) = y.yy, p = .zzz, d = .xx

3) A series of independent samples t-tests comparing participants’ mean ratings of effort,

fatigue, difficulty, and frustration across the ego-depletion and control conditions (with
positive t’s indicating larger rating in the ego-depletion group).
Ego-depletion: Effort, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx; Fatigue, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE =
x.xx; Difficulty, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx; Frustration, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

Control: Effort, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx; Fatigue, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx;

Difficulty, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx; Frustration, M = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

t-tests: Effort (t(1) = x.xx, M difference = xxx, p = .zzz,), Fatigue (t(1) = x.xx, M difference =
xxx, p = .zzz,), Difficulty (t(1) = x.xx, M difference = xxx, p = .zzz,), and Frustration (t(1) =
x.xx, M difference = xxx, p = .zzz,).

Supplemental analyses

Recommended supplemental analysis

An independent samples t-test for differences in overall accuracy on the letter ‘e’ task [note
this is the ‘Acc.Overall.LetE’ column in the output file] across the hard (ego-depletion) and
easy (control) conditions:

Ego-depletion: n = xx; M accuracy = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

Control: n = xx; M accuracy = y.yy; SD = z.zz; SE = x.xx

t(xx) = y.yy, p = .zzz, d = .xx

Supplemental analyses preregistered by this lab

[In this space please detail any additional analyses you did, if any, that were outside the
protocol but that you registered as part of your plan.]

Supplemental post-hoc analyses

[In this space you may detail any additional analyses you did, if any, that were outside the
protocol and not preregistered]