In this work, we evaluate the status of both theory and empirical evidence in the field of
experimental rest-break research based on a framework that combines mental-chronometry …

The use of criminal profiling (CP) in criminal investigations has continued to increase
despite scant empirical evidence that it is effective. To take stock of the CP field, a narrative …

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

This chapter argues that fatigue is a problem of the management of control rather than of
energy. Thorndike (1900) interpreted fatigue as a problem of doing the right thing, rather …

When someone asks,“How do you feel?”, your answer includes your bodily feelings as well
as your emotional feelings. Influential models of emotion view the embodiment of emotions …

Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily
takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in …

Cognitive fatigue and boredom are two phenomenological states that reflect overt task
disengagement. In this article, we present a rational analysis of the temporal structure of …

The depletion effect, a decreased capacity for self-control following previous acts of self-
control, is thought to result from a lack of necessary psychological/physical resources (ie," …

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that task-induced mental fatigue is moderated by
control over work scheduling. Participants worked for 2 hr on simulated office work, with …

While it is widely recognized that thinking is somehow costly, involving cognitive effort and
producing mental fatigue, these costs have alternatively been assumed to exist, treated as …