Losses Motivate Cognitive Effort More Than Gains in Effort-Based Decision Making and Performance

Human behavior is more strongly driven by the motivation to avoid losses than to pursue gains (loss aversion). However, there is little research on how losses influence the motivation to exert effort. We compared the effects of loss and gain incentives on cognitive task performance and effort-based...

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Autores principales: Massar, Stijn A. A., Pu, Zhenghao, Chen, Christina, Chee, Michael W. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
Materias:
Human Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765247
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00287

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765247
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00287

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