Effects of effort sequence and type of consequence in an effort discounting task.
Effort discounting refers to the decrease in the subjective value of a reward as the required effort to obtain it increases. This study examined the effects of effort sequence and consequence type on effort discounting in human participants. In Experiment 1, all participants completed an effort‐base...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 125; no. 2; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2026
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