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Effort Paradox Redux: Rethinking how effort shapes social behavior

2024-12-20

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<p>Effort is a fundamental paradox in human behavior: while organisms typically avoid it as costly and aversive, effort is also valued and actively pursued. This paper examines this apparent contradiction by integrating perspectives from social psychology, cognitive science, and economics. We first detail effort's aversiveness through behavioral, phenomenological, and physiological evidence showing that humans and...

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Literature Corpus work: acd067a7-a13f-5394-8cab-8b856bdf9c68
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4u682

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