Table 2.

Meta-analytic results for the overall effect

Inclusion	k	g	Q	I 2 (%)	+k	g′	PET	PEESE
Including all depletionsa	142	0.38***(0.31, 0.45)	358.87***	60.67	31	0.24***(0.16, 0.32)	−0.18	0.05
Only reliable depletions	39	0.42***(0.32, 0.51)	49.74	25.08	0	0.42***(0.32, 0.51)	0.79***	0.56***

Including all depletions all experiment were included, Only reliable depletions only including experiments using attention essay, emotion video, and Stroop as the depleting task, k the number of effect sizes, g the weighted average standardized mean difference, Q Cochran’s Q statistic for statistical heterogeneity, I ² percentage of variance due to sources other than sampling error, +k the number of experiments imputed by the trim and fill, g′ the (adjusted) estimation of the true effect after experiments have been imputed

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

^aThe five experiments using transcription as the depleting task and the experiment using the difficult math problem were also included