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- Title
Domain-general cognitive motivation: evidence from economic decision-making.
- Authors
Crawford, Jennifer L.; Eisenstein, Sarah A.; Peelle, Jonathan E.; Braver, Todd S.
- Abstract
Stable individual differences in cognitive motivation (i.e., the tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activities) have been documented with self-report measures, yet convergent support for a trait-level construct is still lacking. In the present study, we use an innovative decision-making paradigm (COG-ED) to quantify the costs of cognitive effort, a metric of cognitive motivation, across two distinct cognitive domains (working memory and speech comprehension). We hypothesize that cognitive motivation operates similarly within individuals, regardless of domain. Specifically, we test whether individual differences in effort costs are stable across domains, even after controlling for other potential sources of shared individual variation. Conversely, we evaluate whether the costs of cognitive effort across domains may be better explained in terms of other relevant cognitive and personality-related constructs, such as working memory capacity or reward sensitivity.
- Subjects
REWARD (Psychology); COGNITION; DECISION making; MOTIVATION (Psychology); SHORT-term memory; COGNITIVE processing of language
- Publication
Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 2021, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2365-7464
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s41235-021-00272-7