More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue

People generally prefer easier over more difficult mental tasks. Using two different adaptations of a demand selection task, we show that interest can influence this effect, such that participants choose options with a higher cognitive workload. Interest was also associated with lower feelings of fa...

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Autores principales:	Marina Milyavskaya, Brian M. Galla, Michael Inzlicht, Angela L. Duckworth
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	cognitive work effort interest self-efficacy fatigue Psychology BF1-990
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/c26097eeffa546a5a1c708236f46e4e4
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c26097eeffa546a5a1c708236f46e4e42021-11-19T04:35:20ZMore Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.755858https://doaj.org/article/c26097eeffa546a5a1c708236f46e4e42021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.755858/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078People generally prefer easier over more difficult mental tasks. Using two different adaptations of a demand selection task, we show that interest can influence this effect, such that participants choose options with a higher cognitive workload. Interest was also associated with lower feelings of fatigue. In two studies, participants (N = 63 and N = 158) repeatedly made a choice between completing a difficult or easy math problem. Results show that liking math predicts choosing more difficult (vs. easy) math problems (even after controlling for perceived math skill). Two additional studies used the Academic Diligence Task (Galla et al., 2014), where high school students (N = 447 and N = 884) could toggle between a math task and playing a video game/watching videos. In these studies, we again find that math interest relates to greater proportion of time spent on the math problems. Three of these four studies also examined perceived fatigue, finding that interest relates to lower fatigue. An internal meta-analysis of the four studies finds a small but robust effect of interest on both the willingness to exert greater effort and the experience of less fatigue (despite engaging in more effort).Marina MilyavskayaBrian M. GallaMichael InzlichtAngela L. DuckworthFrontiers Media S.A.articlecognitive workeffortinterestself-efficacyfatiguePsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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description	People generally prefer easier over more difficult mental tasks. Using two different adaptations of a demand selection task, we show that interest can influence this effect, such that participants choose options with a higher cognitive workload. Interest was also associated with lower feelings of fatigue. In two studies, participants (N = 63 and N = 158) repeatedly made a choice between completing a difficult or easy math problem. Results show that liking math predicts choosing more difficult (vs. easy) math problems (even after controlling for perceived math skill). Two additional studies used the Academic Diligence Task (Galla et al., 2014), where high school students (N = 447 and N = 884) could toggle between a math task and playing a video game/watching videos. In these studies, we again find that math interest relates to greater proportion of time spent on the math problems. Three of these four studies also examined perceived fatigue, finding that interest relates to lower fatigue. An internal meta-analysis of the four studies finds a small but robust effect of interest on both the willingness to exert greater effort and the experience of less fatigue (despite engaging in more effort).
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title	More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue
title_short	More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue
title_full	More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue
title_fullStr	More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue
title_full_unstemmed	More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue
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publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
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More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue

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