Rewarding cognitive effort increases the intrinsic value of mental labor

Autor:	Georgia Clay, Christopher Mlynski, Franziska M. Korb, Thomas Goschke, Veronika Job
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Adult Male Motivation Multidisciplinary Social Values Decision Making Achievement Young Adult Cognition Memory Short-Term Mental Processes Reward Task Performance and Analysis Humans Learning Female
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119
ISSN:	1091-6490 0027-8424
DOI:	10.1073/pnas.2111785119
Popis:	Significance Many extraordinary human skills like reading, mastering an instrument, or programming require thousands of hours of practice and continued exertion of mental effort. However, the importance of mental effort often contrasts with currently dominant theories suggesting that effort is aversive and something people avoid whenever possible. Here, we show that rewarding participants for the exertion of effort in a cognitive task increased their preference for more demanding tasks in a transfer phase. This provides evidence that people can learn to positively value effort and demanding tasks in the absence of extrinsic reward. These findings challenge currently dominant theories of mental effort and point to the role of learning environments for the development of effort-related motivation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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