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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognitive Science
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1303262
This article is part of the Research Topic Emerging Talents in Human Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience 2023 View all articles

The Roles of Intrinsic Motivation and Capability-Related Factors in Cognitive Effort-Based Decision-Making

Provisionally accepted
Alyssa Randez Alyssa Randez *Sébastien Hélie Sébastien Hélie
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    The decisions made in everyday life can greatly impact our overall quality of life, and understanding how these decisions are made can highlight different types of motivations. While most theories involved in human decision-making consider the requirement costs (e.g., time, cognitive resources) against the benefits of performing an action (e.g., money, internal satisfaction), how these different factors are valued is still being investigated. This paper furthers this investigation by focusing on demand preferences when the options were tailored to each individual. Results suggested that individual differences in pursuing effortful tasks may depend on the task itself as well as how demanding options are relative to each other. The results of this study may have the potential to further uncover motivations behind effort exertion by highlighting how experimental and educational program designs can influence decisions beyond their challenge or demand-related factors. That is, people may base decisions on factors related to the tasks themselves. The authors of this manuscript believe that this study would be of interest to Frontiers because it highlights human decision making in a way tha t can be used across disciplines to create effortencouraging program designs.

    Keywords: Alyssa Randez: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, investigation, methodology, project administration, Software, Validation

    Received: 27 Sep 2023; Accepted: 16 Apr 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Randez and Hélie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Alyssa Randez, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

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