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A Systematic Review of Effort Discounting Research in Humans: Current Knowledge, Recommendations, and Future Directions

2025-10-16

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<p>Effort is a ubiquitous feature in the decision-making literature. Increasing numbers of studies examine the effect of effort requirements on behavior using a discounting framework: assessing the process by which the subjective value of an outcome decreases as the effort required to obtain that outcome increases. Therefore, a review of methodological approaches, findings, and issues is timely. Accordingly, in th...

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Literature Corpus work: 5bbb988e-7b39-5c74-81f2-c9843c775048
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/k59c4_v1

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