Fig. 1

The experimental design. Participants completed a total of four BIAT‘s. The first two BIAT‘s were completed with the standard instructions and the last two BIAT‘s were completed with the instruction to fake a negative doping attitude. Faking under ego depletion was operationalized by an incongruent Stroop preceding a BIAT (dark grey area) and ‘normal’ faking was operationalized by a congruent Stroop task preceding a BIAT (light grey area). ^aThe practice BIAT consisted of 20 discrimination trials; and 20 trials in each of the doping + like and the doping + dislike blocks. ^bThe discrimination block was removed for the subsequent BIAT‘s and the doping + like and doping + dislike blocks were increased to 40 trials each