Internality and the internalisation of failure: Evidence from a novel task.

A critical facet of adjusting one's behaviour after succeeding or failing at a task is assigning responsibility for the ultimate outcome. Humans have trait- and state-like tendencies to implicate aspects of their own behaviour (called 'internal' ascriptions) or facets of the particula...

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Autores principales:	Federico Mancinelli, Jonathan Roiser, Peter Dayan
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Biology (General) QH301-705.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6af067f7b6c64126980387040ff0b3d62021-12-02T19:57:25ZInternality and the internalisation of failure: Evidence from a novel task.1553-734X1553-735810.1371/journal.pcbi.1009134https://doaj.org/article/6af067f7b6c64126980387040ff0b3d62021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009134https://doaj.org/toc/1553-734Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358A critical facet of adjusting one's behaviour after succeeding or failing at a task is assigning responsibility for the ultimate outcome. Humans have trait- and state-like tendencies to implicate aspects of their own behaviour (called 'internal' ascriptions) or facets of the particular task or Lady Luck ('chance'). However, how these tendencies interact with actual performance is unclear. We designed a novel task in which subjects had to learn the likelihood of achieving their goals, and the extent to which this depended on their efforts. High internality (Levenson I-score) was associated with decision making patterns that are less vulnerable to failure. Our computational analyses suggested that this depended heavily on the adjustment in the perceived achievability of riskier goals following failure. We found beliefs about chance not to be explanatory of choice behaviour in our task. Beliefs about powerful others were strong predictors of behaviour, but only when subjects lacked substantial influence over the outcome. Our results provide an evidentiary basis for heuristics and learning differences that underlie the formation and maintenance of control expectations by the self.Federico MancinelliJonathan RoiserPeter DayanPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Computational Biology, Vol 17, Iss 7, p e1009134 (2021)
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description	A critical facet of adjusting one's behaviour after succeeding or failing at a task is assigning responsibility for the ultimate outcome. Humans have trait- and state-like tendencies to implicate aspects of their own behaviour (called 'internal' ascriptions) or facets of the particular task or Lady Luck ('chance'). However, how these tendencies interact with actual performance is unclear. We designed a novel task in which subjects had to learn the likelihood of achieving their goals, and the extent to which this depended on their efforts. High internality (Levenson I-score) was associated with decision making patterns that are less vulnerable to failure. Our computational analyses suggested that this depended heavily on the adjustment in the perceived achievability of riskier goals following failure. We found beliefs about chance not to be explanatory of choice behaviour in our task. Beliefs about powerful others were strong predictors of behaviour, but only when subjects lacked substantial influence over the outcome. Our results provide an evidentiary basis for heuristics and learning differences that underlie the formation and maintenance of control expectations by the self.
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title	Internality and the internalisation of failure: Evidence from a novel task.
title_short	Internality and the internalisation of failure: Evidence from a novel task.
title_full	Internality and the internalisation of failure: Evidence from a novel task.
title_fullStr	Internality and the internalisation of failure: Evidence from a novel task.
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Internality and the internalisation of failure: Evidence from a novel task.

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