NeuroscienceJournal of Cognitive NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Make or break: The influence of expected challenges and rewards on the motivation and experience associated with cognitive effort exertion
Y. Charles Zhang, Xiamin Leng, Amitai Shenhav
This study examines how challenge level and reward size affect mental effort, stress, and affect during a cognitive task, finding that higher challenge and rewards increase effort but also stress, while rewards alone boost positive affect.
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