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There's some evidence that a related effect may not be real: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_t

• steego 11y ago
  Just to be clear, this article is talking about ego depletion which is the theory that willpower is linked to glucose consumption implying exercising willpower in one area will deplete willpower for another area. What Kahneman is talking about is a tendency for the brain to swap out expensive slower analytical thinking with cheaper and faster heuristic thinking. Both ideas are only tenuously related because they both discuss the role of the brain's glucose metabolism.