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There is a particular kind of tiredness that afflicts people who have spent the day making small decisions. Psychologists call it 'decision fatigue,' and its symptoms are familiar to anyone who has ever stood, exhausted, in a grocery store aisle, unable to choose between two nearly identical brands of pasta sauce. What is less familiar is the mechanism. Decision fatigue is not caused by mental effort in the way that lifting boxes causes physical fatigue. Studies suggest, rather, that each choice depletes a limited reserve of self-control, and that when the reserve is empty, the brain begins to make decisions by default—choosing whatever is easiest, cheapest, or most immediately gratifying. This has unsettling implications. It suggests that a judge's ruling may depend less on the merits of the case than on whether it comes before or after lunch. It suggests that a shopper who resists a dozen small temptations may lack the willpower to resist the thirteenth. And it suggests, most disturbingly, that the modern environment—which bombards us with choices from the moment we wake—may be systematically eroding the very faculty we rely on to navigate it.

Based on the passage, which situation would best illustrate decision fatigue?

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