"If you are having a hard time controlling your thoughts, feelings, or behaviours, it may be because you just made a lot of decisions."
Decision-making affects self-regulation; that is, the ability to control our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Self-control and decision-making use the same psychological resource. When a person makes many decisions, the resource may get depleted and consequently the ability for self-control fails.
Taken from: Vohs, K., Baumeister, R., Schmeichel, B., Twenge, J., Nelson, N., & Tice, D. (2008). Making Choices Impairs Subsequent Self-Control: A Limited-Resource Account of Decision Making, Self-regulation, and Active Initiative. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(5), 883-898.
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