In the radish study (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven, & Tice, 1998), participants in the experimental group were assigned the high self-control task of eating radishes (and resisting the chocolate chip cookies), while participants in the control group were assigned the no-self-control task of eating the chocolate chip cookies.Participants were then asked to complete a series of impossible-to-solve geometry problems. The results showed that:

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The study found that participants who ate the chocolate chip cookies (control group) persisted longer on the geometry problems than those who had to exert self-control by eating radishes instead of cookies (experimental group). This suggests that exerting self-control on a task can deplete an individual's ability to persist on subsequent tasks requiring self-control.

In the Radish Study (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven, & Tice, 1998)