Re: Decision fatigue, desire, willpower and ADD

[Anonymous]

it’s an interesting read if you can manage it, talks about how judges make different decisions during the day that are due to decision fatigue (since the facts in the cases are the same – in this case, inmates up for parole), also some interesting experiments where people were asked to make decisions in one group (the other was just asked to explore the options without decision) and then they tested their willpower afterwards, and the decision-makers consistently had less willpower. This was true even for people with so-called strong willpower. There were a few experiments documented in the article. So it’s the act of decision-making that is the trigger, but then, we do that all day long, I think!

It’s why candy is at the checkout at the supermarket, you have fatigued yourself with all the choices you made in the store and have less resistance (and glucose is what the brain needs).

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