APS

2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026

Give Me a Reason: How Clear Implications and Motivation Influence Feedback

Barcelona, Spain · May 2026

Participating Organizations

  • Celia Sen
    Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology

Abstract

Undergraduate students contributed to two experimental studies (McHugh, Sen, Rocha, Özman, Gorman, & Shell) which explored how context and individual differences influence feedback quality, including whether people provide higher quality feedback when requests offer clear reasons and when people have greater motivations to give feedback.

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