APS
30th APS Annual Convention
To Exert or Not To Exert, That Is the Question
How do people decide to exert effort? In this symposium, we present research on effort-based decisions. In our experiments, we used behavioral tasks in which participants choose to exert physical force vs. not (e.g., to attain rewards). We address neural and psychological mechanisms, individual differences, and social implications.
Chairs & Discussants
- Erik BijleveldChair
Radboud University
Presentations
- Neural Mechanisms of Effort-Based DecisionsMichael Treadway
- Exposure to Bright Light Biases Effort-Based DecisionsErik Bijleveld, Melanie Knufinke
- The Impact of the Explicit Achievement Motive on Effort MobilizationMichael Richter, Florence Mazares, Kerstin Brinkmann
- Prosocial Apathy: When Helping Others Is Just Too Much EffortMatthew Apps, Patricia Lockwood
