Effort paradox redux: Rethinking how effort shapes social behavior
Advances in experimental social psychology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
The impact of impulsivity and compulsivity on error processing in different motivational contexts
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 5, 2025
Neural
correlates
of
performance
monitoring,
specifically
the
error-related
negativity
(ERN),
are
not
only
sensitive
to
motivation,
but
also
altered
in
mental
disorders
marked
by
high
levels
impulsivity
and
compulsivity.
We
explored
relationship
between
ERN
individual
differences
A
total
221
participants
were
recruited
along
dimensions
compulsivity,
they
performed
a
flanker
task
with
potential
gain
loss
avoidance
motivational
context
assess
brain
activity.
examined
theta
power.
Single
trial
regression
was
employed
analyze
effects
relation
High
compulsivity
predicted
higher
amplitudes
within
context,
context.
The
interaction
both
resulted
being
largest
when
low,
smallest
low.
amplitude
difference
trials
highest
if
Results
indicate
that
associated
larger
probably
indicating
subjective
error
significance.
Both
show
reduced
modulation
suggesting
deficits
adaptive
regulation
monitoring.
Exploring
transdiagnostic
markers
their
interactions
could
provide
valuable
insights
into
unraveling
complex
dynamics
arise
examining
neural
monitoring
effects.
Language: Английский
Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Motivation and Decision-making
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
36(12), P. 2822 - 2830
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Motivation
is
often
thought
to
enhance
adaptive
decision-making
by
biasing
actions
toward
rewards
and
away
from
punishment.
Emerging
evidence,
however,
points
a
more
nuanced
view
whereby
motivation
can
both
impair
different
aspects
of
decision-making.
Model-based
approaches
have
gained
prominence
over
the
past
decade
for
developing
precise
mechanistic
explanations
how
incentives
impact
goal-directed
behavior.
In
this
Special
Focus,
we
highlight
three
studies
that
demonstrate
computational
frameworks
help
decompose
decision
processes
into
constituent
cognitive
components,
as
well
formalize
when
motivational
factors
(e.g.,
monetary
rewards)
influence
specific
processes,
strategies,
self-report
measures.
Finally,
I
conclude
with
provocative
suggestion
based
on
recent
advances
in
field:
organisms
do
not
merely
seek
maximize
expected
value
extrinsic
incentives.
Instead,
they
may
be
optimizing
achieve
desired
internal
state
homeostasis,
effort,
affect).
Future
investigation
such
will
fruitful
endeavor
unlocking
cognitive,
computational,
neural
mechanisms
motivated
Language: Английский
Make or break: The influence of expected challenges and rewards on the motivation and experience associated with cognitive effort exertion
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 7, 2023
Abstract
Challenging
goals
can
induce
harder
work
but
also
greater
stress,
in
turn
potentially
undermining
goal
achievement.
We
sought
to
examine
how
mental
effort
and
subjective
experiences
thereof
interact
as
a
function
of
challenge
level
the
size
incentives
at
stake.
Participants
performed
task
that
rewarded
individual
units
investment
(correctly
Stroop
trials)
only
if
they
met
threshold
number
correct
trials
within
fixed
time
interval
(challenge
level).
varied
this
(Study
1,
N
=
40),
rewards
stake
2,
79),
measured
variability
performance
self-reported
affect
across
intervals.
Greater
higher
facilitated
induced
while
(and
lower
challenge)
simultaneously
positive
affect.
Within
intervals,
we
observed
an
initial
speed
up
then
slowdown
performance,
which
could
reflect
dynamic
reconfiguration
control.
Collectively,
these
findings
further
our
understanding
influence
demands
on
exertion
wellbeing.
Language: Английский