The main ideas in this book are drawn from a handful, up to hundreds, of studies. I have listed the key studies that seem most relevant to each argument, not every paper used to write the book. Some of the papers are available online for free, though a good number also require purchasing to view. More resources are available online at www.your-brain-at-work.com, including video and audio programs.
Scene 1: The Morning Email Overwhelm
For more on Roy Baumeister’s research on the prefrontal cortex’s energy limits, see:
Masicampo, E. J., and R. F. Baumeister. “Toward a physiology of dual-process reasoning and judgment: Lemonade, willpower, and effortful rule-based analysis.” Psychological Science 19 (2008): 255–60.
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