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Effort Justification
After freely investing unpleasant effort, people may sometimes rate the resulting outcome more positively—but effort is also a cost and does not reliably create value.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
The Effect of Perceived Effort on Reward Valuation: Taking the Reward Positivity to Dissonance Theory
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- There was no significant reward-positivity difference between low- and high-effort conditions; within the high-effort condition, greater subjective effort was associated with a larger response.
- Where it may not transfer
- The within-condition association is not the same as a randomised high-versus-low effect and may reflect individual differences. A neural response is not a direct measure of product value, satisfaction or beneficial effort.
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