APS
2026 APS Annual Convention
Why We Stay Engaged – and Why We Don’t: Integrating Self-Control, Boredom, Flow, and AI
This symposium seeks to clarify current inconsistencies in our understanding of effortful behaviors. We achieve this by addressing conceptual problems with self-control, identifying the motivational pull of highly stimulating gambling environments, providing a mechanistic model for when effort becomes rewarding, and examining contexts where people prefer effort to automation.
Chairs & Discussants
- Aidan CampbellChair
University of Toronto
Presentations
- What Is Self-Control: A Discussion of Unresolved IssuesMarie Hennecke
- Temporal Dynamics of Boredom during Slot Machine GamblingRaymond Wu
- Computational Mechanisms Linking Task Demands to FlowDavid Melnikoff
- What Gives? Comparing Competing Predictions from AI Aversion and the Law of Least WorkAidan Campbell
