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SUBMITTER: Massar SAA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379863 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Massar Stijn A A SAA Pu Zhenghao Z Chen Christina C Chee Michael W L MWL
Frontiers in human neuroscience 20200717
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 decision making. In three experiments, participants performed a cognitively effortful task under gain and loss conditions and made choices about effort expenditure in a decision-making task. Results c ...[more]