Worth the wait? Leisure can be just as enjoyable with work left undone
| Autor: | Ellen Roney, Ed O'Brien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Male Pleasure Work Adolescent 050109 social psychology 050105 experimental psychology Job Satisfaction Young Adult Leisure Activities Surveys and Questionnaires Ethnicity Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Motivation 05 social sciences Middle Aged Epistemology Open data Philosophy Female Psychology Social psychology Intuition |
| DOI: | 10.17605/osf.io/xmnyq |
| Popis: | Four studies reveal that (a) people hold a robust intuition about the order of work and leisure and that (b) this intuition is sometimes mistaken. People prefer saving leisure for last, believing they would otherwise be distracted by looming work (Study 1). In controlled experiments, however, although subjects thought their enjoyment would be spoiled when they played a game before rather than after a laborious problem-solving task, got a massage before rather than after midterms, and consumed snacks and watched videos before rather than after a stressful performance, in reality these experiences were similarly enjoyable regardless of order (Studies 2 through 4). This misprediction was indeed mediated by anticipated distraction and was therefore attenuated after people were reminded of the absorbing nature of enjoyable activities (Studies 3 and 4). These studies highlight the power of hedonic experience within the moment of consumption, which has implications for managing (or mismanaging) everyday work and leisure. People might postpone leisure and overwork for future rewards that could be just as pleasurable in the present. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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