Persistence Motives in Irrational Decisions to Complete a Boring Task
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Persistence motives in irrational decisions to complete a boring task.
We explored a novel task paradigm where participants from the online work marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk were given the choice to quit or continue an unfinished boring task for identical economic rewards. In Studies 1a and 1b, about half the participants chose to continue (corresponding to an average of 55 and 35 cents in foregone earnings). Participants' self-reported reasons for continuin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0146-1672,1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214557008