Splitting Motivation: Unilateral Effects of Subliminal Incentives.
A study challenged the notion that motivation is seen as denoting the strength of a person's desire to achieve a goal. Data were obtained by making participants squeeze a handgrip to win the greatest fraction possible of each subliminal incentive that was materialized as a coin image flashed in one...
| Published in: | Psychological Science. Vol. 21; no. 7; pp. 977 - 984 |
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