ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Neurocognitive effects of interest on reward valuation and effort investment in boring contexts.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Predictive processes linking sense of agency and fatigue: a novel allostatic framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Coursework Demand and Learning Engagement on Mental Fatigue in Online College Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The Impact of Health Status, Chronic Conditions, and Mental Fatigue on College Students' Grade Expectations in Online Courses.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Fluctuations in Sequential Many-Alternative Decisions Reveal Strategies Beyond Immediate Reward Maximisation.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Age differences in motivation drive performance during the sustained attention to response task.PloS one · 2025Article
- Investigating the isolated effects of a soccer-specific mental fatigue manipulation on different task types.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Mental fatigue and sleep restriction effects on perceptual-cognitive performance in trained beach volleyball athletes.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A Theoretical Framework for the Development of Need for Cognition in Childhood and Adolescence.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Review
- The Impact of Hearing Aids on Listening Effort and Listening-Related Fatigue - Investigations in a Virtual Realistic Listening Environment.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
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 (
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