The effects of potentially real and hypothetical rewards on effort discounting in a student sample
- The primary aim of the present study was to investigate the functional form of discounting of monetary rewards by physical effort in potentially real and hypothetical contexts. Individuals (N = 142) completed the assessments with hypothetical and potentially real effort discounting tasks, and their hypothetical or potentially real consequences. The data obtained from the experiment reported here suggest that hypothetical conditions yield patterns of discounting that mirror those for potentially real effort tasks and outcomes. However, this finding also leaves open the possibility that the degree of discounting may change together with the repeated exposure to the consequences of decisions, or the counterbalanced order of hypothetical and potentially real tasks.
| Author details: | Marta MaleszaORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.030 |
| ISSN: | 0191-8869 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Personality and individual differences : an international journal of research into the structure and development of personality, and the causation of individual differences |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2019 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Release date: | 2020/09/30 |
| Tag: | Effort discounting; Hypothetical rewards; Potentially real rewards |
| Volume: | 151 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| Funding institution: | German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)German Research Foundation (DFG); National Science Center in Poland [2013/11/N/HS6/01149] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
