Effort aversiveness may be functional, but does it reflect opportunity cost

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Abstract

Though the aversiveness of effort may indeed serve in selecting tasks for executive attention, the notion that it reflects opportunity costs is questionable: The potency of distractions in real-life situations is not regularly related with the potential benefit from attending to them.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)701-702
Number of pages2
JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume36
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
  • Physiology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

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