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

David Navon

doi:10.1017/S0140525X13001131

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

David Navon

Department of Psychology

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	701-702
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	36
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13001131
State	Published - Dec 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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

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