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An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource that is depleted over time. We propose an alternate explanation that centers on mental representations of the costs and benef...

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Main Authors: Kurzban, Robert, Duckworth, Angela, Kable, Joseph W., Myers, Justus
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3856320/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24304775
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12003196
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